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Contritely tells you how someone does or says a thing: in a guilty, truly-sorry way. He smiled contritely. She contritely admitted the mistake. The feeling is the same as contrite — a heavy sorry, not a light one — but here it sits on the action, not on the person as a label. The word is formal and a little literary; in everyday talk people say “sorry,” “in a sorry voice,” or “looking ashamed.” You will meet contritely in stories and news more than in the playground. Though actually, like contrite, it can describe a show as well as a feeling: someone may speak contritely because that is what the room wants to hear.
痛悔地、懺悔地
組成From contrite + -ly (in that way).
同家族的字
- contritethe adjective — feeling truly sorry
- contritionthe noun — the sorry feeling itself
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contritelyadv
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In a contrite manner.
- Ah, but someone was raising her, so they were going to lay her on the trestles, and she not dead. She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, then limply and contritely placed both arms round Andrew's neck.
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