What's the difference between apologetic and contrite?

Apologetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apologetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
  • (2) Cameron signalled he had no intention of ousting Cable after telling an "end of term" press conference today that the business seceretary "was very apologetic at Cabinet this morning".
  • (3) One day, they are gone, leaving only an apologetic note on the kitchen table.
  • (4) In the second half of Pantene's commercial, previously-apologetic women revolt.
  • (5) He makes the case for spending cuts not in ideological terms, but almost apologetically, as a grim necessity forced by circumstances.
  • (6) Puncheon's long free-kick was met by Marouane Chamakh on the edge of the six-yard box, and although the substitute's header was saved by David Marshall, using his legs, the ball ran to Ledley who nudged it home, almost apologetically.
  • (7) Appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York's public radio station, Lehrer – no relation to his host – said he was "not apologetic" and said the debate had been the first "unrehearsed" moment of the presidential campaign.
  • (8) Ellie Lee, a sociologist at Kent University, agrees with this stealth aspect: "People will say secretly to their friends that they enjoy their work, but you have this really apologetic presentation of self amongst working mothers – you know, 'I'd rather work a bit less, I'd rather be with my children'.
  • (9) Dimond claims the person asking him questions for the habitual residence test was "very apologetic" for even making him undergo it.
  • (10) Fouad asked with meek and apologetic smile if he could have our phones.
  • (11) Look, I say, apologetically, I'm going to press ahead.
  • (12) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
  • (13) said the woman arranging our new mortgage, apologetically.
  • (14) Bronwyn Bishop vows to stay in office despite referral of helicopter trip to police Read more “She has repaid the money with a penalty and, as she said on the weekend, obviously she is sorry, obviously she is apologetic.
  • (15) Apologetic and stony faced, the boss of the Japanese carmaker Toyota repeatedly expressed "sincere regrets" for faulty accelerator pedals linked to dozens of deaths and injuries yesterday as US lawmakers pounded his handling of a safety crisis afflicting more than 8m vehicles globally.
  • (16) The letter I received from East Coast customer services was apologetic, and admitted having let me down both in terms of the malfunctioning machines and the advice given to me by their staff, but the fine was not revoked.
  • (17) She said the waiter was polite, as was a supervisor who was very apologetic but stated that it was hotel policy for mothers to cover up while breastfeeding.
  • (18) Bristling with sonic ideas and anchored by a massive chorus, it’s a confident return for Flowers compared to that slightly apologetic 2010 debut.
  • (19) She still lives with her mum, and wasn’t so much exasperated by that as faintly apologetic for her good fortune.
  • (20) My words, disordered and vague, tumble out of my mouth in hurried little apologetic bursts that start badly before imploding.

Contrite


Definition:

  • (a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
  • (a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
  • (n.) A contrite person.
  • (v.) In a contrite manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
  • (2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
  • (3) Ken Livingstone has delivered a rare public display of contrition, following a backlash over leaked remarks made by him in a private meeting which were interpreted as saying that Jewish voters would not vote for him because they were rich.
  • (4) It's no surprise, then, that displays of contrition over his defeat by Boris Johnson in 2008 have not been a feature of the start of his campaign to take back the mayoralty in 2012.
  • (5) With Oldham Athletic pulling out of a deal to sign the player in the face of pressure from the public and sponsors, Evans’s statement via the Professional Footballers’ Association marks his first act of contrition towards the victim since he walked from prison on licence 83 days ago.
  • (6) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
  • (7) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (8) "He was an unreliable witness and showed little contrition by pointing the finger at many of his former executives.
  • (9) 'Show contrition' said George Osborne's notes – but what did that mean?
  • (10) But Lind will have to decide whether she believes Manning is really contrite, and not merely apologising as a pragmatic bid for a shorter sentence.
  • (11) [Modi's] lack of contrition is outweighed by his rising profile as a possible ministerial candidate.
  • (12) So would anyone looking for an expression of contrition or regret.
  • (13) In a statement that contained little contrition for putting investors, staff and customers through a fruitless two weeks, Duch-Pedersen insisted that shareholders were continuing to "express their overwhelming support for the standalone G4S business and its management".
  • (14) Labour's Margaret Hodge , chair of the public accounts committee said Barlow "might want to show a bit of contrition by giving back his OBE".
  • (15) But Burnham, who has been publicly contrite about the frontbench’s ill-judged refusal to vote against the second reading of the government’s welfare bill at the start of the summer, could now reach out to the left by campaigning vigorously against this legislation.
  • (16) Any settlement should include a formal apology, but contrition alone would not be enough, he said.
  • (17) Donald Trump, on his Republican critics Whether Trump will be capable of showing genuine contrition when he faces Hillary Clinton on the debate stage at Washington University in St Louis on Sunday night remains in doubt.
  • (18) You can see when you speak to him how sorry he is about it and he's certainly shown quite a lot of contrition to us and as part of that, he's also asked we donate the fine to the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
  • (19) Hari is also handing back the George Orwell prize he won as "an act of contrition for the errors I made elsewhere, in my interviews" and will undertake "a programme of journalism training" during his leave of absence.
  • (20) "Despite some of the ways in which things come out as arrogant there are people at the top who are contrite and want to do the right thing," he said.