apologetically

apologetic | American Dictionary

apologetic
adjective
us/əˌpɑl·əˈdʒet̬·ɪk/
expressing regret about having caused someone inconvenience or unhappiness:
He was apologetic for not returning my call.

apologetically

adverbus/əˌpɑl·əˈdʒet̬·ɪk·li/
The waiter apologetically took the bone back to the kitchen and quickly brought Mr. Apple another.

Examples of apologetic

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The other element that seems open to criticism is the somewhat apologetic vein that runs through most of the contributions.
He was diffident, and at times almost apologetic, yet he set people thinking and planted seeds of ideas which left an indelible influence.
Lyrics (often inaudible) tend to be introspective, pessimistic, passive, sometimes ironic, or apologetic.
Furthermore, it turned out that for a long time historiography had a strongly apologetic character (instead of aiming to reconstruct past events).
Ironically, the apologetic purpose of these later works may have militated against the inclusion of even more material regarding the miraculous.
Hence, their writings had a strongly apologetic cast, and this over rode their weakly stated arguments that sinning rulers need not be obeyed.
Several were apologetic about it: ' reluctantly yes'; ' yes, afraid so'; ' sadly, yes'.
In reaction, the empiricism of contemporary scholarship reopens the process of his thought and acts as apologetic for our psyches.
Given these distinctions and qualifications, the apologetic use of theistic arguments is far from superfluous, even if the proper basicality thesis is true.
Once again, the apologetic employment of theistic arguments would be consistent with the underlying epistemology of theistic belief.
The professed intention of all those writers is historical not apologetic.
So you should act apologetic when you say this word.
Some notable similarities catch the eye, not least the prevalence of apologetic pronouncements on war and aggression.
The respondents were always very apologetic about such interruptions.
We are beginning to see that an apologetic thinking of this sort, despite its reputation for intellectual weakness, did possess some autonomy.
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