apologetic
Example Sentences
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And when I spoke to Bisognano the day of the Virginia referendum, there was a lightly apologetic undertone to the conversation.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2026
Cucurella was viewed as genuinely apologetic for failing to raise his concerns privately before speaking publicly.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
I emailed Wille and got an apologetic response a few days later.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
Sonny finds himself tripping over his ineptitude and tangled up in conflicting sympathies—he’s almost as anxious as his hostages, whom he treats with an apologetic kindliness, almost like a party crasher who’s broken a vase.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
‘So-called’ is apologetic; even stranger is his insistence that the term is already in popular use.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing apologetic
Feeling Sorry?
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ic
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