apologize

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Rev. Ted was on Larry King and other talk shows doing what all media publicists insist is the only thing to do if you have a scandal and something to sell to the public: admit your mistake (or sins in this case), apologize, and beg forgiveness.

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  1. intransitive verb To make excuse for or regretful acknowledgment of a fault or offense.
  2. intransitive verb To make a formal defense or justification in speech or writing.

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  • At this point the men MUST apologize, admit their misogyny, set out to totally combat sexism as their number one goal and Hillary must agree to help them in this endeavor. —  WordPress.com News
  • Rihanna must like when Chris follows her around to apologize, and in that was she is an enabler and just as bad as him. —  iVillage - Daily Blabber
  • Snap judgment: The new At the Movies with Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz David Letterman finally gets John McCain to apologize, and then some I was a bit disappointed that John McCain actually felt the need to appear on —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • He has to apologize because he is getting pressure to apologize, and he is getting that pressure because a handful of people who do NOT reflect the national mood might write a letter. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • I apologize, there's no way I'm walking out of that argument in one piece. —  1UP RSS feed
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apologize:   apologized ·  apologizing ·  apologizes
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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/ɑˈpɑlədʒɪz/
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