Sentence examples for non-apology from inspiring English sources
noun
A statement in the form of an apology, but without contrition or acknowledgement of wrongdoing.
Hart, pressured by the academy to formally apologize, initially offered a non-apology. .
A non-apology is a faked or forced apology that "apologizes" but is bereft of any true sincerity.
Her non-apology didn't help.
The chummy non-apology was tin-eared.
He delivered a non-apology on BBC radio.
Still, Armstrong's non-apology is still a long way off being the greatest non-apology of recent years.
Cathy Peters said on Facebook: "What a non-apology!
But a non-apology is still a non-apology, and sometimes you can't fully move on until you've been more explicit about whether you actually did something wrong.
We've also heard what might be called the "Marcus Agius non-apology".
Questioned later, Giuliani copped to the universal politician non-apology — a failure to communicate.
In the heat of huge public outrage, Dawkins issued one of those non-apology apologies.
