Remorse

//ɹɪˈmɔɹs//

"Remorse" in a Sentence (16 examples)

He exhibited no remorse for his crime.

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

Tom felt remorse for what he had done.

Remorse is not synonymous with regret.

The thief declared remorse and claimed to be heartbroken about the crimes he had committed.

When time comes for me to join the dead, I will have lived carelessly and will die without remorse.

He has no remorse.

She has no remorse.

Delusion is short-lived, but remorse lasts a long time.

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

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In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants.

Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.

This is the bloodiest shame, The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by.

When they have accepted their advice and have some upleasant experience then they remorse.

Then with godly sorrow they remorse with a humble heart, and they repent.

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