He later gave a vague apology.

"Came to see if I could give you a hand," she said, with a tone of vague apology in her voice.

Mr. Wise made vague apologies during a similar session of the board for "acting like a bunch of idiots."

Murmuring a vague apology, Roanna pushed back her chair.

Drunnel looked at him, mumbled a vague apology as he turned the stud.

Corinne murmured a vague apology.

Negotiations appeared final, but no offer came, "only evasion and vague apologies."

When he was done, and both parties had set their thumb-prints to the agreement, Balthasar drew her aside, smiling a vague apology to the judge.

Looking bedraggled, her lip trembling with emotion, Ms. Olson offered a vague apology, saying "I am truly sorry" for hurting people.

Dr. Opsahl called her vague apology "too little, too late."