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Showing "be contrite" (corrected from "contrite person") | add "contrite person" definition
| apologize(deplore, regret, atone) | |
| ask forgiveness(expression, sorrow, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| atone(sorrow, deplore, regret, apologize) | |
| be ashamed(sorrow, deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| be sorry(sorrow, deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| bewail(deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| feel remorse(expression, sorrow, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| have qualms(expression, sorrow, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| lament(deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| reform(sorrow, deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| relent(sorrow, deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| repent(verb, ask) | |
| reproach oneself(expression, sorrow, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| rue(deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| see error of ways(expression, idiom, sorrow, deplore, regret) | |
| show penitence(expression, sorrow, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| sorrow(deplore, regret, atone, apologize) | |
| apologize for(expression, deplore, regret, atone) | |
| be apologetic(deplore, regret, atone) | |
| be repentant(deplore, regret, atone) |
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