Sample Sentences for
remorse
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    ...shocked to see Hagrid shaking with grief and remorse, great tears leaking down into his beard.  (source)
    remorse = deep regret (for his error)
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    No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse.  (source)
    remorse = regret
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    I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—  (source)
    remorse = regret for having done wrong
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    A third alternative was for Roy to try apologizing to Dana again, this time oozing remorse and sincerity.  (source)
    remorse = deep regret for doing something that was wrong
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    We're at least three hours too late... Make sure y'all sound remorseful, all right?  (source)
    remorseful = full of regret for doing something that was wrong
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    "It's too far," Ezra said, shaking his head remorsefully.†  (source)
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    We've got one or two town drunks, but they're always having remorses every time an evangelist comes to town.†  (source)
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    He was a skilled and unremorseful thief, preying mostly on unsuspecting children and always after checking to make sure neither Jenny nor I was watching.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unremorseful means not and reverses the meaning of remorseful. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Now remorse began to gnaw at me.  (source)
    Remorse = a feeling of regret for doing something that was wrong
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    Never remorseful, Tony coolly replied, "Same to you."†  (source)
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    ' he said half remorsefully.†  (source)
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    What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty–they were forced to feel strongly.  (source)
    remorses = regrets
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    There was no remorse in her eyes.  (source)
    remorse = feeling of regret for doing something that was wrong
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