APOLOGY

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apology substantiv

1. scuză;

to make / to offer an apology a cere / a prezenta scuze.

2. apărare, sprijinire.

3. (fam.) caricatură, improvizaţie, surogat;

an apology for a painting o pictură – dacă se poate numi aşa, o pictură ca vai de capul ei.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of conventional prefix.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

If I were you, I'd write him an apology, Sir.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Explanation and apology are equally impossible.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I confess that I think you owe him some apology.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And no apology left, no message for me.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

On this subject I have nothing more to say, no other apology to offer.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

You owe a very humble apology to that noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to have one.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether he had asked her pardon for his intrusion on first coming into the room, he could not recollect; but determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say any thing, after taking a chair.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

She rushed out at an opposite door from the one her uncle was approaching, and was walking up and down the East room in the utmost confusion of contrary feeling, before Sir Thomas's politeness or apologies were over, or he had reached the beginning of the joyful intelligence which his visitor came to communicate.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Meg received his humble apology, and was much comforted by the assurance that Brooke knew nothing of the joke.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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