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"contrite about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to express feeling regretful or remorseful about something. Example: After making a mistake on the project, he was contrite about it and apologized to his boss.
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Mr. Booth is contrite about this problem.
He is properly contrite about this today.
I still feel contrite about that".
"He has nothing to be contrite about.
Yesterday Mr. Balsam sounded contrite about the payroll problems.
He is not very contrite about the problems he has caused.
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BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said what was extraordinary was that Theresa May had been entirely un-contrite about what had happened, insisting there was not going to be a return to control orders.
There has been a fair amount in the news lately about apologies, particularly whether the chief executives of financial institutions have been contrite enough about the role they played in bringing about this recession.
In the statement, Woods took a contrite tone about the events that began at 2 25 a.m.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Murdoch spoke in contrite tones about the company's efforts to deal with the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal.
If the British at Cannes hoped Emir Kusturica's docu-tribute to Diego Maradona was going to feature contrite sobbing about his notorious "hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup, well, we had another think coming.
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