penitent

Word family

pen·i·tent1 /ˈpenɪtənt/ adjectiveadj formal

SORRY/APOLOGIZEfeeling sorry because you have done something wrong, and are intending not to do it again 后悔的；悔过的；忏悔的 SYN repentant

a penitent expression

愧疚的表情

—penitently adverbadv

—penitence noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

penitent• Phil was trying hard to look penitent.• And he had a notorious asperity for which he was afterwards sometimes penitent.• He'd have liked to have seen Gina reading one of their notes with a penitent expression.• There are various Pelagias who are known as penitent harlots or virgin martyrs who died to escape a fate worse than death.• But Gao Jinjiao was rocking back and forth, bumping against the tree like a penitent little boy.• After watching a few more penitent men pass by I was ready to leave.• And to a penitent soldier a crusade was even better than an unarmed pilgrimage.• But the short version points to a promise of progress in experience beyond the stage of penitent sorrow.• He inherited a regular staff meeting and was penitent that he had never invented such a meeting in Durham.

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