mea in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for mea in the English»French Dictionary

mea culpa [Brit ˌmeɪə ˈkʊlpə, ˌmiːə ˈkʌlpə, Am ˌmeɪə ˈkʊlpə] N INTERJ

mea culpa

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mea culpa

mea culpa!, it's my fault!

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English

He shed the tears, offered the mea culpa, and yet the self-appointed morality police in the national media are still at him with their billy clubs.

ca.askmen.com

He further said that the concept was end-to-end mea culpa, full of clarifications, rectifications and excuses, revising the history of a man who knows he doesn't have much time left.

en.wikipedia.org

We've counselled companies to do that, to do the full faceplant mea culpa.

www.cbc.ca

We could not call them mea culpas because that means "through my fault" and the acknowledging of having done wrong, which they certainly did not.

www.irishexaminer.com

It is anathema to say mea culpa because that is construed as weakness and somehow reduces the confessor to something or someone less.

www.jamaicaobserver.com

It earned a mea culpa from city officials.

edmontonjournal.com

A little mea culpa might not have gone amiss.

www.spectator.co.uk

This is something of a mea culpa for the fossil fuel heavyweight.

theconversation.com

This is not quite the mea culpa that some people who are angry about the credit bubble would like to see.

www.ft.com

But we've heard too many of these disavowals and non mea culpas before.

www.thestar.com