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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a remorseful manner.

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  • adverb Done with remorse; in a remorseful manner.

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  • adverb in a rueful manner

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Examples

  • "Well, Lola," remorsefully, "it is never too late to mend.

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  • Something to this effect was said by a man who remorsefully acknowledged taking a person's life.

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  • "What if my sister was walking down the street and a couple of girls come and just beat her up because they want to join a gang?" she asked, remorsefully.

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  • Olivia knew she would eat too much, and she did, remorsefully and steadily.

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  • “This whole ordeal …,” Caroline whispered, shaking her head remorsefully.

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  • Note carefully that he remorsefully and regretfully accepted it with the obligatory denunciation of racism.

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  • He hesitated on the threshold and looked at her remorsefully.

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  • But I don't -- I don't think that anybody that murders another individual ought to be forgiven unless that person that committed the act sincerely and remorsefully, you know, repents or whatever and asks for forgiveness.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2009 2009

  • But perhaps best of all, he also returned with a gift for me which is now officially my most prized possession, seen here being held aloft triumphantly yet remorsefully by what is now my second-most prized possession:

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  • Or, even better, to transfuse their own otherwise implausible excuses for their predicaments into our remorsefully accommodating bloodstream.

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