fairly apologetic
Frequency: 6.04.1 per million words
To be quite sorry.
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- The manager was fairly apologetic about the mix-up with our reservation.
- When he finally arrived, he sounded fairly apologetic for keeping us waiting.
- She seemed fairly apologetic after spilling a little coffee on my sleeve.
- Although it was a small error, the new intern was fairly apologetic and promised to be more careful.
- I felt fairly apologetic for forgetting my friend's birthday.
- The email from the company was fairly apologetic in tone regarding the service outage.
- "I'm fairly apologetic about the noise last night," my neighbor said.
- He gave a fairly apologetic shrug when he realized his mistake.
- If the package doesn't arrive on time, I expect the company to be at least fairly apologetic.
- They were fairly apologetic for the inconvenience but didn't offer any compensation.