On Twitter, the Tory whip Claire Perry joined the outcry, demanding the MP "apologise profusely".
But the winner of this particularly unedifying battle has to be Andrew Strauss, who thought Sky had turned the microphones off before Nick Knight asked for his opinion of Kevin Pietersen and declared himself "mortified and profusely sorry" after his explicit response was broadcast worldwide.
I remember thanking them profusely outside of the courthouse that day for giving me a second chance when I didn't think I deserved one.
Related: Córdoba 0-8 Barcelona | La Liga match report Sevilla had held their own in the first half but the game changed when the home side's midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak clashed heads with Sergio Ramos and had to go off to get treatment for a profusely bleeding nose.
In the early post-Soviet years Burlatsky had his own television discussion programme, and continued to publish profusely.
The director, sweating profusely in a shirt that had once been maroon, explained the scenario.
The charity will thank you profusely, especially if you remember to include the original disks, the manuals and, above all, the licence numbers of the proprietary software installed.
If anyone in your party does take offence at a jibe, apologise quickly and profusely.
Though the product had been deliberately poisoned with cyanide while on shop shelves the firm's chief executive apologised repeatedly and profusely, production ceased and over 30m bottles were recalled at a cost of some $100m.
When Mrs Shakir-Ahmed complained about that shop assistant, for example, the manager apologised profusely and gave her two free bags.
With 27 seconds left in round one, the challenger by now bleeding profusely, the referee ends the fight.
