apologize

Now, a fifth of its 10,000 residents live beneath the poverty level, and even the bartenders apologize to visitors for the condition of their town.

As Kohen points out to The Daily Beast, Dawkins never actually apologizes for what he said.

The president apologizes for her part in the conspiracy and promises to resign.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is a strange movie, and it never apologizes for that.

She apologizes profusely, curls up across from me, and begins to, as she calls it, gab.

He apologizes to Mike, who is sitting there like a serene Buddha.

In the passage introducing the new letters (page xv) Richardson now apologizes.

Devenish, who is evidently much attracted by Delia, apologizes to her and goes back between tree and hammock to L. of Belinda.

In a Swabian story the Earthman, as he is called, apologizes for omitting to offer food.

He apologizes for, and attempts to palliate this levity, and affects to believe that Lincoln was a Christian.

The nearest expression of the type is that it either hits or apologizes; and in this case both apologized.