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View definitions for repentant

repentant

adjective as in penitent

adjective as in sorry

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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.

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.

“I invented the game but I lost like a fool,” a heartbroken Jagger sings on this mid-tempo ballad, sounding uncharacteristically regretful and even repentant.

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

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