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adjective

Sorry adj. (compar. sorrier; superl. sorriest)

Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. "I am sorry for my sins." "Ye were made sorry after a godly manner." "I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure." "She entered, were he lief or sorry."

Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful. "All full of chirking was this sorry place."

Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. "With sorry grace." "Cheeks of sorry grain will serve." " Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree."

Synonyms: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sorry" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceed to give expression to their restless spirits. It is the child's nature to play, and he uses all his wits to find the materials and the room for sport. His ingenuity can adapt sticks and stones to a variety of uses, but the street makes a sorry substitute for a ball-field, and while the girl may content herself with the sidewalk and door-steps, the boy soon looks abroad for a more satisfying occupation. Among the gangs of city boys no diversion ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... returned to the northward the very same day, deeming it, as he expresses it, a dangerous and rash enterprize to struggle with fields of ice. "I," he continues, "who had ambition not only to go farther than any one before, but as far as it was possible for man to go, was not sorry to meet with this interruption." The existence of a southern continent was thus considered by Captain Cook, and all other geographers, as disproved ...

— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... flashing glance which Hollis had taken at him he had been aware that here was a person of more than ordinary mental ability and refinement. It was with a pang of pity that he remembered Judge Graney's words to the effect that he was a good workman—"when sober." Hollis felt genuinely sorry for him. ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... "I'm sorry I'm so unentertaining to-night. When Linnet writes she says: "'I wish I could talk to you,' and when I talk I think: 'I wish I could write ...

— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin

... afraid you're right. It does seem rather like Julia to stay away till the first of the worst is over. I'm really sorry for some of 'em. I suppose it will get whispered about, and they'll hear it; and there are some of the poor things that might take ...

— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington

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