In a message group someone says something critical of some other people in the
same group, then goes on:

> たとえそうだとしても、それを言う必要はないと感じてしまいました……私如きがごめんなさい

I have seen ごとき used as explained in
[dictionaries](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E5%A6%82%E3%81%8D/), but I
am not sure what it means here.

私ごとき＝私なんか？私ってば？
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「私ごとき」＝「私ってば」　？
This ごとき is used when the speaker wants to humble himself or look down on
someone. For example, お前ごときが、アメリカの大統領に対してなんてことを言うんだ!(How dare someone like you
have said such things to the U.S. president!).
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First of all, the expression of 私ごとき is quite different from those in
dictionaries you have consulted. 私ごとき can be said to be almost equal in
meaning with 私ってば. But 私ごとき is used almost by male seniors, and never used by
young people, so the sentence (1) sounds a little strange because of the
collocation of 私ごとき and a little casual phrase of ごめんなさい。It will be more
natural to say in (3). (1) たとえそうだとしても、それを言う必要はないと感じてしまいました……私如きが、ごめんなさい。(2)
たとえそうだとしても、それを言う必要はないと感じてしまいました……ごめんなさい、私ってば。(3)
たとえそうだとしても、それを言う必要はないと感じてしまいました……私なんかが、ごめんなさい。On the contrary, 私ってば found in
sentence (2) is mostly used by female young people or never used by males.
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