Thanks for the clarification. If you don&#x27;t mind sharing more and if you remember, what was the exact usage of the word? It seems like some of them could be construed as sexist, as I referred to in another comment. So maybe that was why he was apologizing. I assume you didn&#x27;t think it was sexist (or you would have said so), but maybe he was concerned it could be interpreted that way.<p>(If that&#x27;s the case, he shouldn&#x27;t have said it regardless of who was around, but once he said it, apologizing with some amount of sincerity would be better than not apologizing.)