repentant
adjective
re·pen·tant
ri-ˈpen-tᵊnt 
1
: experiencing repentance : penitent
2
: expressive of repentance
repentantly
adverb
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Examples of repentant in a Sentence
repentant sinners
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Released 24 years after a debut verse on an album no less auspicious than Outkast’s Stankonia, this was a veteran artist taking stock, vividly drawing the lines between the struggling kid and the grateful, repentant adult.
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Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
The repentant Barbosa who was glad getting caught forced her to quit.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
Last spring, Trump appointed as his national security adviser John Bolton, a man who remains perhaps the Iraq war’s most fervent and least repentant champion.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2019
Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
The repentant Barbosa who was glad getting caught forced her to quit.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 10 July 2024
Last spring, Trump appointed as his national security adviser John Bolton, a man who remains perhaps the Iraq war’s most fervent and least repentant champion.
—Jon Finer, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2019
Some had arrived at Quinto’s page searching for a repentant statement in response to the public backlash.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
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“Repentant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repentant. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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