What's the difference between apologetic and sorry?

Apologetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apologetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here they led within 90 seconds against a team whose fragility has been all too clear this term, and still contrived to wilt almost apologetically.
  • (2) Cameron signalled he had no intention of ousting Cable after telling an "end of term" press conference today that the business seceretary "was very apologetic at Cabinet this morning".
  • (3) One day, they are gone, leaving only an apologetic note on the kitchen table.
  • (4) In the second half of Pantene's commercial, previously-apologetic women revolt.
  • (5) He makes the case for spending cuts not in ideological terms, but almost apologetically, as a grim necessity forced by circumstances.
  • (6) Puncheon's long free-kick was met by Marouane Chamakh on the edge of the six-yard box, and although the substitute's header was saved by David Marshall, using his legs, the ball ran to Ledley who nudged it home, almost apologetically.
  • (7) Appearing on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York's public radio station, Lehrer – no relation to his host – said he was "not apologetic" and said the debate had been the first "unrehearsed" moment of the presidential campaign.
  • (8) Ellie Lee, a sociologist at Kent University, agrees with this stealth aspect: "People will say secretly to their friends that they enjoy their work, but you have this really apologetic presentation of self amongst working mothers – you know, 'I'd rather work a bit less, I'd rather be with my children'.
  • (9) Dimond claims the person asking him questions for the habitual residence test was "very apologetic" for even making him undergo it.
  • (10) Fouad asked with meek and apologetic smile if he could have our phones.
  • (11) Look, I say, apologetically, I'm going to press ahead.
  • (12) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
  • (13) said the woman arranging our new mortgage, apologetically.
  • (14) Bronwyn Bishop vows to stay in office despite referral of helicopter trip to police Read more “She has repaid the money with a penalty and, as she said on the weekend, obviously she is sorry, obviously she is apologetic.
  • (15) Apologetic and stony faced, the boss of the Japanese carmaker Toyota repeatedly expressed "sincere regrets" for faulty accelerator pedals linked to dozens of deaths and injuries yesterday as US lawmakers pounded his handling of a safety crisis afflicting more than 8m vehicles globally.
  • (16) The letter I received from East Coast customer services was apologetic, and admitted having let me down both in terms of the malfunctioning machines and the advice given to me by their staff, but the fine was not revoked.
  • (17) She said the waiter was polite, as was a supervisor who was very apologetic but stated that it was hotel policy for mothers to cover up while breastfeeding.
  • (18) Bristling with sonic ideas and anchored by a massive chorus, it’s a confident return for Flowers compared to that slightly apologetic 2010 debut.
  • (19) She still lives with her mum, and wasn’t so much exasperated by that as faintly apologetic for her good fortune.
  • (20) My words, disordered and vague, tumble out of my mouth in hurried little apologetic bursts that start badly before imploding.

Sorry


Definition:

  • (a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.
  • (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
  • (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (2) Israel’s president has told his Mexican counterpart that he was “sorry for the hurt” over a tweet in which the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to praise Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.
  • (3) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
  • (4) If I go back to 1995 – and some started earlier, some a little later, but let’s take that as ground zero – I think we’re all sorry.
  • (5) We had a brief conversation and I said to him he was acting from high honour here, and I said how sorry I was this wasn’t happening in three or four years time..because Barry is a man of honour..and I think he is a very capable premier and I think he has been missed.” Asked whether he had ever met Nick di Girolamo , the prime minister said both he and Mr di Girolamo attended a lot of functions, and “I don’t for a moment say I have never met him but I don’t recall it.” But former federal Liberal MP Ross Cameron sounded much more sceptical about O’Farrell’s memory lapse when speaking to Sky News.
  • (6) I say ‘fuck sorry.’” Rudd, who addressed a breakfast in Sydney to mark the anniversary, said words must be followed up with actions.
  • (7) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (8) But the sorry state of the economy is clearly the main worry.
  • (9) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
  • (10) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
  • (11) I used to go to meetings and people would say sorry about all the problems and the denialist president.
  • (12) Hermens went on to say that Aregawi “feels really sorry for all the people that she has let down in Sweden”.
  • (13) Every time I hear that someone has been injured by a bomb on the ground I feel very sorry.
  • (14) "In a way I feel sorry for him and I think he needs some sort of counselling as it is obviously very odd behaviour.
  • (15) I’m desperately sorry, says head who hired paedophile William Vahey Read more Investigators in the UK have already established that while Vahey was teaching in London from 2009 to 2013, teachers on four different trips reported his suspicious behaviour with pupils to the school.
  • (16) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
  • (17) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
  • (18) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
  • (19) It is convention that private conversations with the queen should be kept off the record, and Cameron later said he was embarrassed and sorry about the incident.
  • (20) DN: Sorry, Julia, but depression is still – as you may know from the recent report from the European Brain Council, of which I'm vice president – the largest cause of disability in Europe.