fairly apologetic

Frequency: 6.04.1 per million words

To be quite sorry.

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Examples (10)

  • 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.