very sorry for something bad that you have done Her expression was contrite. He looked so contrite that for a moment she nearly believed he really was sorry about what he had said.
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adverb
NAmE//kənˈtrɪʃn//
noun [uncountable] a look of contritionSee contrite in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: contrite