remorse English

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What does remorse mean?

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remorse Noun

— Remorse is the feeling of having made a bad mistake. A person gets this bad feeling when they do or say something, and wish they had not. I lost a friend because of what I did, and now I feel such remorse about it.

remorse

— noun (= compunction) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

Synonyms remorse synonyms

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remorse English » English

regret

repentance

sorrow

compunction

contrition

penitence

anguish

self-reproach

rue

pity

penance

guilt

grief

conscience

suffering

sorry

shame

ruth

dismay

disappointment

compassion

woe

torment

sympathy

scruple

sadness

resipiscence

repetance

remorsefulness

reluctance

regretfulness

pang of conscience

pain

misery

misericorde

mercy

heartbreak

heartache

heart-stricken

guilty conscience

guilty

gainbite

distress

dissatisfaction

deplore

contriteness

chagrin

bitterness

be sorry

agenbite

Topics remorse topics

What do people use remorse to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sorry

• What words refer to feeling sorry?
  feel sorry be sorry regret feel remorse feel convicted conscience stricken feel guilty lament rue rue the day ruefully wish you hadn't done something kick yourself repent be ashamed feel ashamed have a bad conscience have a guilty conscience be on your conscience feel bad about
• What words refer to the feeling of sorrow?
  sorrow regret remorse guilt conviction contrition penitence repentance shame conscience

Examples remorse examples

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Simple sentences

They show no remorse for their misdeeds, but continue to commit one crime after another.

He has no remorse.

She has no remorse.

Tom was full of remorse after stealing Mary's car and writing it off.

Sociopaths rarely display remorse or feelings of guilt for their crimes.

Movie subtitles

The Marquis shuts himself in his library, trying to stifle his remorse.

Infinite sorrow and remorse.

Remorse drives Medardus out of the city.

Remorse Downstairs, an untroubled conscience.

And that chain spells repression to the evil. Remorse to the good.

Guess it must be remorse or something.

It is the symbol of remorse that will pierce your heart, if you betray the society that you are entering into.

This bitter drink should be a symbol for you of the bitterness and remorse which will remain in your heart, perjury which will burn your lips.

I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in.

In the small hours of the night. when every sound is seized upon by the distraught imagination. remorse and terror laid hold of him.

Have you no remorse for your sins?

Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature, Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it!

Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace. incessant torture and remorse.

With the captain, show remorse.

Do you feel no remorse, Liliom?

Do you feel any remorse?

Your two acquaintances maybe felt remorse?

Why should you, because you're guilty of a child's existence allow your remorse to color her life?

I felt remorse for having deprived education this long of such a fine teacher.

Run yourself down with remorse.

Remorse?

You're trying to turn remorse into memories.

What you might call active remorse.

And before she accepted the crown of France. And the jewels and the silken gowns, she had an hour's remorse over you.

Remorse to the good.

It's her first offense and she's shown remorse, so we're dropping the charges.

IF YOU HAVE SUCH REMORSE, YOU WILL WEEP YOURSELF TO DEATH.

They cite a type of criminal. born with no capacity for remorse or guilt. no feeling of right or wrong. born with a kind of brain that may have been normal in humans. fifty thousand years ago.

Without remorse.

Remorse be damned!

You mustn't feel any remorse.

Damn, have you no remorse?

I was a pig, but you how it is. now I feel remorse.

No, Mr. Humbert confesses to a certain titillation of his vanity to some faint tenderness, even to a pattern of remorse daintily running along the steel of his conspiratorial dagger.

Believe me, no need for remorse.

What matters is not to have remorse.

Abandon all remorse, on horror's head horrors accumulate do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed for nothing canst thou to damnation add greater than that.

News and current affairs

Many surveys show that it is almost like an addiction, with a short-term benefit leading to long-term unhappiness and remorse.

Like good theater, terrorism always acts out some moral drama, and to strike terror in the public mind, terrorists must act in public, without guilt or remorse.

Some terrorists might feel remorse and guilt about their actions.

Vick has expressed remorse.

The question of remorse has not arisen, because Megrahi has never admitted guilt, and did not drop an appeal against his conviction until just before his release.

Many surveys show that it is almost like an addiction, with a short-term benefit leading to long-term unhappiness and remorse. Such viewers say that they would prefer to watch less than they do.

China's leaders seem to have taken note of this moment of Japanese remorse.

Biljana Plavsic, the President of the Bosnian Serb Republic after Karadzic, expressed remorse for her crimes, pled guilty, and is serving a prison sentence.

Worse still, they express no remorse toward their victims.

WASHINGTON, DC - At World War II's close in the Pacific, we Japanese, with feelings of deep remorse, embarked on the path of rebuilding and renewing our country.

Given this recognition and remorse, we Japanese have believed for decades that we must do all that we can to contribute to Asia's development.