Meaning & use
mea culpa
An acknowledgment or admission of one's own error or wrongdoing.
See it in a sentence
The CEO issued a public mea culpa after the product recall.
His apology felt less like a mea culpa and more like an excuse.
A note on using this word
Mea culpa is Latin for through my fault and is typically used as a noun in English, as in offer a mea culpa.
Words with a similar meaning
apologyadmission of guilt
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