as in remorseful
feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done
repentant sinners
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Recent Examples of repentant
Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.
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Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
Far from being repentant, Ritchie viewed the company’s subsequent stock-price wobble as vindication, and claims its top brass reached out to him personally, eager to mend fences.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
No, the whole story needs to be laid out before the whole world with great detail and a repentant heart.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
In very little time, Lin’s bad luck takes him to one of Bombay’s slums and attracts the attention of smooth-talking gangster Khader Khan (Alexander Siddig), who views the repentant outsider as either a son or a pawn or an opportunity to make people like me compare the plot of Shantaram to Shogun.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
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Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
Far from being repentant, Ritchie viewed the company’s subsequent stock-price wobble as vindication, and claims its top brass reached out to him personally, eager to mend fences.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
No, the whole story needs to be laid out before the whole world with great detail and a repentant heart.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
In very little time, Lin’s bad luck takes him to one of Bombay’s slums and attracts the attention of smooth-talking gangster Khader Khan (Alexander Siddig), who views the repentant outsider as either a son or a pawn or an opportunity to make people like me compare the plot of Shantaram to Shogun.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repentant
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Meanwhile, the fans wearing Aaron Judge and Mariano Rivera jerseys who tried to pry the ball from Betts’ glove weren’t exactly remorseful.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Dec. 2024
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Hughie Campbell is walking with his girlfriend down the street when suddenly she's obliterated by a speeding A-Train, who doesn't really seem that remorseful.—
Gord Magill,
Newsweek,
22 Dec. 2024
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Yet none of the people who had new hates felt remotely ashamed.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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With your silly smirks your mothers would be ashamed of?—
Marya E. Gates,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2025
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Like, sorry, life isn't some perfect script for everyone.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Some of those starts were even with MBM—sorry, Garage 66.—
Greg Engle,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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But with Cash on the vocals, the song and the man singing are nearly penitent.—
Stephanie Kaloi and James Mercadante,
EW.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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Eighteen years later, playing the beloved daughter of Al Pacino’s Michael, she is shot dead on the steps of the opera house in Palermo, taking a bullet meant for the belatedly penitent godfather, who now comprehends without any doubt that there is no escaping the sins of his or his relatives’ past.—
Andrew Marzoni,
The New Republic,
3 Nov. 2023
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So either stage it or don’t, but packaging its grandeur with an apologetic shrug is trying to have it both ways.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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Women were expected to be apologetic and submissive.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Everyone would be expecting a contrite performance from him, tepid jokes about male-female relationships, jokes about how horrible men were, and so on.—
Camille Bordas,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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Scotty was pretty contrite during the reunion, but Aria was clearly heartbroken.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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Her scenes with Burstein are rich and funny and regretful; those with June (Jordan Tyson) and Louise (Joy Woods) are withering.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2024
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Now, Nicole is speaking out about her regretful decision to share such a personal story about one of her past relationships.—
Giana Levy,
refinery29.com,
17 Oct. 2024
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“Repentant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repentant. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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