apologetic
Example Sentences
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Reception staff at the hotel were apologetic, Nowell said, but they could not explain how the incident had happened.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Too often, it arrives over-mashed and under-seasoned — pale, pasty, faintly apologetic.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 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
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
Mr. Harrison rubs his forehead and gives Mama an apologetic look.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Vocabulary lists containing apologetic
Feeling Sorry?
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ic
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