It sounds like something people might do at work. You know that you did something wrong in a professional setting because you broke a rule or didn’t meet a deadline or maybe even said something wrong, but deep inside you aren’t sorry at all. You can’t stand your boss, rules were stupid and deadline was arbitrary. But you have to keep your job so you must say something “my apologies” or “I apologize”

No one says it to me in personal life but if they did I’d know they aren’t sorry at all and just don’t want me to kick them to the curb so they got to say something lol