"I couldn't eat it", she said apologetically.
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Apologetically
Synonyms for "apologetically" (3 found)
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5 translations across 5 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- apologèticament adv (in an apologetic manner)
French
1 entries- apologétiquement adv (in an apologetic manner)
Italian
1 entries- apologeticamente adv (in an apologetic manner)
Polish
1 entries- przepraszająco adv (in an apologetic manner)
Spanish
1 entries- disculpándose adv (in an apologetic manner)
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Tom smiled apologetically and left the room.
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Tom smiled apologetically.
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In the street, vans roared past him; brutality blared out on placards; men were trapped in mines; women burnt alive; and once a maimed file of lunatics being exercised or displayed for the diversion of the populace (who laughed aloud), ambled and nodded and grinned past him, in the Tottenham Court Road, each half apologetically, yet triumphantly, inflicting his hopeless woe.
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