contrition

He expressed deep contrition over the video in which he bit the dog's corpse, stating he had not been responsible for its death.

He said while the ABC has displayed some contrition - including through the public apology - their failure to investigate who leaked Lattouf's sacking to the media detracts from that.

What might once have been a footnote in a quarterly earnings report has become a recognizable genre: the corporate reversal, performed in public, equal parts contrition and spectacle.

In a fresh extract from her memoir, published in the Sunday Times, Sturgeon accuses Salmond of failing to show any contrition for his "inappropriate" behaviour towards women.

He has shown contrition, but it has been a damaging few days.