contrite

When he sees and hears about what he has done, he is distraught and contrite.

Three weeks later, Churchill Downs rocked the racing world by saying it was suspending Baffert for two years from all its tracks, which made him ineligible to run in the Kentucky Derby, and then tacked on another year because it didn’t feel he was contrite enough.

Days later, Smith issued a contrite statement and resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

And following the verdict, the defendant himself, instead of acting contrite or respectfully pledging to continue his legal battle, denounced it all as “a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt.”

And while he has issued public apologies, Goecke has remained more defiant than contrite, and disturbingly equivocal: He has both admitted to overreacting and also tried to justify his behavior.