• The newspaper offered only a grudging apology for its reprehensible victimization of Lee and did not discipline any of the reporters involved.
• He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.
• The First Minister eventually decided to go to Normandy, but his decision to do so, and the accompanying apology, was seen as grudging and petulant.

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