Synonym: apologize, excuse, justify, rationalise, rationalize. Similar words: apologist, apologize, ecologist, apology, psychologist, ornithologist, paleontologist, biological. Meaning: v. 1. defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning 2. acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing.
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61 After the race, Rossi went to the Honda garage to apologise to Stoner for his mistake. The Repsol Honda rider shared his feelings after the two exchanged words.
62 It has taken a lot of courage to overcome my embarassment and return here to apologise.
63 Reflecting the extent of anger in Congress over AIG, the normally placid Republican senator Charles Grassley today refused to apologise for suggesting AIG executives commit hara-kiri.
64 The non-negotiable element is that our conversation be in French, so I opt for Paris and e-mail his office to apologise for not being entirely fluent.
65 Mr Fogh Rasmussen has declined to apologise for the cartoons.
66 You're huffy at being put on duty, but what is it for you to apologise to an old and honourable officer!
67 We apologise again for this error and enclose our credit note for the overcharge.
68 U guys are working double-triple time on this blundered-up stuff that they spin bc of my visits w press – while I apologise I say I love you guys!!!
69 We apologise again for this error and enclose our credit note for thd overcharge.
70 'The trouble is, though, I can't actually think of any mistakes, and there's nothing to apologise for' which was to make Dislaeli's point, though in a Wilsonian way.
71 It has taken a lot of courage to deal with my embarassment and to come here to apologise.
72 If anyone has been left out , we apologise for the omission.
73 Chrissy: Do you think Percy will ever apologise to his family?
74 An Australian restaurant that refused a blind man entry because a waiter thought his seeing-eye dog was "gay" has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation.
75 A foreign news organisation has yet again been forced to apologise to you and your father and pay you a large sum of money for publishing an article you did not like.
76 Edwin van der Sar, 39, had nothing to apologise for, but the veteran understandably does not dominate the goalmouth.
77 Apologise abjectly,(http://sentencedict.com/apologise.html) explain those you HAs suddenly seeing yourself in a new light and those you now realise what an awful thing it were you did.
78 He was also forced to apologise in 2007 after referring to the Outer Hebrides in the Western Isles of Scotland as 'nowheresville.
79 To apologise, we will be refunding Ms Sheren the full price of the wine, and delivering two cases to her, free of charge.
80 In April, however, he used his blog to make a statement headed "I Apologise". Mr Roh said his "household" had received the money to help settle a debt.
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