contrite

How To Use contrite In A Sentence

• In a few years, we may find a more professional Crown Office as well as a more contrite justiciary.
• Another kid might be contrite or repentant or maybe subdued.
• She'd have to placate him, to be properly remorseful and contrite if that was what it took to heal her marriage. HERE BE DRAGONS
• Prisons are designed to transform a regretted crime into contrite behavior through penalties and punishment.
• “Thank you for coming to get me,” Brenda said contritely sometime later. Fatal Error
• We will be discerning, and when failing to discern, genuinely contrite, but we will give no quarter to our enemy.
• He seemed unusually gentle for a strangler - soft-spoken and quite contrite.
• You might have thought that Leonora would be just calmly loathing and he lachrymosely contrite.
• They are also the friendliest and most unabashedly contrite with ‘Aww, shucks!’
• The card shark caught marking the deck, the auto dealer caught resetting a used car's odometer, is rarely contrite. Krugmanize your mind