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mea culpa

interjection as in guilt acknowledgment

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noun as in acknowledgment of responsibility

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So he’s about to offer a rare mea culpa — and undertake an ambitious plan to remake programming at MTV and sister units, including Comedy Central, VH1 and even Paramount Plus.

How Facebook wrote its rules for TrumpZuckerberg’s testimony will not be a mea culpa.

As a lighthearted mea culpa, the introductory video for Neutron showed Beck eating his own hat.

Speaking to reporters outside his home, he offered an explanation that doubled as a mea culpa.

Jackson and the other “Countdown” hosts all gave mea culpas on the show that aired the Sunday after Limbaugh’s comments.

In Washington, where politicians have mastered the art of the mea culpa, those words would not normally warrant much attention.

Like Gates, I also lost my policy objectivity—mea culpa—but for all the right reasons, as I believed then and still do.

Now I think Obama was right to do that mea culpa bit last week.

At the end, the two embraced and Eminem flicked off the crowd, a middle-finger mea culpa.

The right thing to do would be a formal mea culpa from the author.

I know too well how little I profited by all his warnings, and I cry, Mea culpa.

For this, I can only beat my breast violently and mutter mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

If he had been differently brought up, he might have beaten his breast and cried, "Mea culpa!"

He closeth his eyes and saith his mea culpa and setteth all his hopes in God.

T is my ungoverned spirit hath wrought all this mischief,—mea culpa!

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mea culpa, such as: my bad, and my fault.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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