APOLOGIES

Definition: APOLOGIES

APOLOGIES

Plural

1. Of Apology

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "APOLOGIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: APOLOGIES

It's a little a late for apologies. (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe)

I think some apologies are in order (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz)

A thousand apologies, O Patient One. (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

Oh, my apologies. Hey, Tom (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

My apologies, ma'am (Cahill U.S. Marshal; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink)

No apologies ever need be made (1979; performing artist: Smashing Pumpkins)

No Apologies (1990)

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Books

• Blackfunk II: No Regrets / No Apologies (reference)

• No Apologies (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories) (reference)

• No Apologies For Ritalin (reference)

• On the Divine Images: Three Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Holy Images (reference)

• The No Salt, No Sugar, No Fat, No Apologies Cookbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Andrew Dice Clay: No Apologies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• No Apologies (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Madame, he said, bowing, I owe you a thousand apologies for disturbing you at this hour. Credit: Library of Congress.

China current -- with apologies to Winslow Homer. Credit: Library of Congress.

The McKinley flying machine (with respectful apologies to Prof. Langley). Credit: Library of Congress.

His attitude (with apologies to the ostrich). Credit: Library of Congress.

Why waste your time looking for a job when the Navy will employ you at once / by courtesy of the New York Tribune, with apologies to Briggs. Credit: Library of Congress.

A portrait of Richard Milhous, with apologies to Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It laid bare the hypocritical apologies of economists. (reference)

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I long to make apologies, excuses, to urge something for myself

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Civil Liberties

Singapore

They submitted written apologies for making the film and withdrew it from the Festival. (references)

Minorities

Romania

In 2000 the NGO Romani CRISS filed a complaint with the Ombudsman's Office regarding a job announcement, posted in Bucharest's Third Sector Labor Force Office by a private firm called S.C. Guard, which stated, "no Roma accepted." The Labor Force Office offered public apologies, and no further such announcements have been posted there. (references)

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Chinese 

道歉 (apologise, Apologize, Apologized, Apologizing, Apology). (various references)

Finnish

anteeksipyydellen (apologetically, with many apologies). (various references)

German

Entschuldigungen. (various references)

Greek 

συγνώμη (absolution, apology, regret, sorry). (various references)

Hungarian

sűrűn mentegetőzik (to be profuse in one's apologies), ünnepélyesen bocsánatot kér (to tender one's apologies). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

万謝 (many thanks, sincere apologies). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばんしゃ (aborigines village, many thanks, sincere apologies). (various references)

Pig Latin

apologiesay.(various references)

Spanish

mis disculpas (my apologies). (various references)

Swedish

ursäkter (excuses). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "APOLOGIES": escapologies. (additional references)

Misspellings

"APOLOGIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apolgies, apoligies, apoligise, Apollinis, apollogies, apologi, Apologie, apologied, applogies, Appollonius, appologies, appologise, Apuleius, pologies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: apologise.

-1 letter: spoilage.

-2 letters: apologs, epilogs, goalies, ologies, soilage.

-3 letters: apolog, aslope, epilog, espial, galops, goalie, gospel, igloos, isolog, ligase, lipase, looies, pilose, plages, pogies, poleis, polies, polios, saloop, silage.

-4 letters: aegis, agile, agios, aisle, aloes, gales, galop, gaols, gapes, glias, glops, goals, goops, goose, igloo, lapis, lapse, leaps, loges, logia, logoi, logos, looie, loops, loose.

+1 letter: apiologies, apologised, apologises, apologizes.

+2 letters: apologetics, apologizers, haplologies, megalopolis, pathologies.

+3 letters: escapologies, escapologist, graphologies, holographies, oligophagies, palynologies, papyrologies, praxeologies.

+4 letters: amphibologies, campanologies, escapologists, megalopolises, phraseologies, phraseologist, planetologies, planetologist, primatologies, progressional, protogalaxies, psephological, speleological.

+5 letters: anthropologies, fluorographies, geopoliticians, laryngoscopies, megalopolitans, paleobiologies, paleobiologist, paleoecologies, paleoecologist, paleontologies, paleontologist, paleozoologies, paleozoologist, parasitologies, pathobiologies, pharmacologies, phraseological, phraseologists, planetologists, pneumatologies, polarographies, postcollegiate, progestational, spermatogonial.