Word of the Day:
remorseful
What It Means
Feeling or filled with remorse.
Expressing or caused by remorse.
He was so remorseful that he voluntarily paid full restitution.
Remorseful in Context
“Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.”
Did You Know?
From remorse + -ful.
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