apologetic
Example Sentences
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I emailed Wille and got an apologetic response a few days later.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
But her very existence gave a certain kind of young woman a compelling model of how to be a brasher, less apologetic, more feminist person in the world.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
Cynthia, who in her 20s entered a marriage that any actuarial table would have advised strongly against, is almost apologetic for finding herself wed to Warren.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
After a couple minutes he came back, apologetic at abruptly leaving the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025
‘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
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