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mea culpa
noun as in acknowledgment of responsibility
Example Sentences
A senior Tory told me after the election defeat the party had to "go everywhere and do a mea culpa, to listen and take a kicking".
I don’t want to wait until Jake Tapper writes a post-mortem book about Trump and then goes on another mea culpa tour to publicize it.
In a mea culpa statement to the court, Hancock explained that the errors might have crept into his declaration when he cut-and-pasted a note to himself.
But his mea culpa did little to appease the public.
The murderous mea culpa was shared in a trailer for the upcoming Peacock docuseries "Making Manson."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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