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repentant

adjective as in penitent

adjective as in sorry

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He added that he was truly repentant, promising directly to those affected: "I will repay you."

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Thanh portrays himself as a repentant figure who now regrets his life of crime and wants to speak out to prevent other Vietnamese people from making the same mistakes.

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Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.

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After going through weeks of rehabilitation there, the men are reintegrated into society under the government's ongoing amnesty programme for repentant Boko Haram members.

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Stories range from the title piece, about the death of his mother; to an account of a filmmaker in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend to the tale of a repentant vampire.

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