Crossword-Solution: APOLOGETIC 10 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Apologetic a. Alt. of Apologetical

We have 46 clues for the answer “APOLOGETIC”

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Full of "sorry"s 1 answer
Full of excuses 1 answer
Like released rocker's statement 1 answer
MAKING excuses 1 answer
With hat in hand, perhaps 1 answer
Sorry self-importance is elevated in rigged Capitol 1 answer
reformed 3 answers
attritional 3 answers
Expressing sorrow 4 answers
compunctious 4 answers
penitential 4 answers
Wish undone 6 answers
"Very sorry!" 6 answers
atoning 6 answers
In a sorry state? 6 answers
pitying 24 answers
Regretful 28 answers
repentant 29 answers
Penitent 31 answers
Contrite 31 answers
grieved 35 answers
apologia 43 answers
Hangdog 48 answers
remorseful 49 answers
sorrowing 52 answers
Depressed 57 answers
ACT of being caught 58 answers
Sorry 58 answers
eristic 58 answers
defence 60 answers
grieving 67 answers
Unlucky 71 answers
Doleful. 72 answers
Arguing 72 answers
unhappy 73 answers
unfavourable 75 answers
Adverse 75 answers
Touching 75 answers
sorrowful 76 answers
displeasing 76 answers
Sympathetic 77 answers
Wretched 82 answers
Unfortunate 83 answers
Sad 86 answers
Melancholy 87 answers
Bad 98 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APOLOGETIC (5)

Peter never quite knew what twins were, and his band were not allowed to know anything he did not know, so these two were always vague about themselves, and did their best to give satisfaction by keeping close together in an apologetic sort of way.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Who can he have?” “Young Cain Ball is a very good lad,” Henery said, “and Shepherd Oak don’t mind his youth?” he added, turning with an apologetic smile to the shepherd, who had just appeared on the scene, and was now leaning against the doorpost with his arms folded.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Her head had a downward droop; her step was soft and apologetic, even in her mother’s house, and her smile had the sickly, uncertain flicker that so often comes from a secret humiliation.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
These humiliated outcasts had the frowsy and unbrushed and apologetic look of wet cats, and their eyes were glazed with drowsiness, their bodies were adroop from crown to sole, and all kind-hearted people refrained from asking them if they had been to Bayreuth and failed to connect, as knowing they would lie.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
They were as loath to touch their trouble when the minister came in as if it were their disgrace; but Lapham did so at last, and, with a simple dignity which he had wanted in his bungling and apologetic approaches, he laid the affair clearly before the minister's compassionate and reverent eye.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008

Quotes with APOLOGETIC (3)

I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him.""He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look." We've tried to teach her manners, but..." She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe." Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.
Melissa Marr Wicked Lovely
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full…
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Make sure the seaweed lies flat.''Okay.''Leave an inch below the knee.''Okay.''It's got to be loose enough to put a finger in the top.''Sean Kendrick.' I say it emphatically enough that the stallion's ears prick toward me. (...) Sean doesn't appear to be at all apologetic. 'I think you'd better let me do that after all.''You're the one who had me in here in the first place.' I say. 'Now I think it's you who doesn't trust me.''It's not just you,' He replies. I glower at him. '…
Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1973–2021).