Example Sentences

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Over-apologizing can sometimes be almost as bad as under-apologizing, because it puts pressure on the recipient to make the apologizer feel better, and that’s the thing you want to avoid here.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2019

Several members of her own staff sent emails grumbling that she was a recalcitrant apologizer.

From Time • Oct. 31, 2016

“Apology-washing changes no one, neither the apologizer nor the recipient, because the act regurgitates a social norm rather than launching an emotional process,” Mr. Seidman told me.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2014

You can argue that those actions were necessary and justified, but you can’t say they were the work of an apologizer.

From Newsweek • Sep. 12, 2012

The conundrum for the offended: How much difference is there, really, between the offender and the subsequent apologizer?

From Washington Post