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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

... learned Malone seems to have been sorry that little of Shakespeare but the calf-killing and the poaching, and the dying of a fever after drink taken (WHERE, I ask you?), with Ben and Drayton, was remembered, so long after date, at Stratford, of all dirty ignorant places. Bah! how could these people have heard of Drayton and Ben? ...

— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang

... what is paid into the royal treasury, as I have done sometimes, even constraining this present treasurer so that he might ordain that those warrants for whose despatch and payment he did not have my decrees should not be honored. Consequently, I would not be sorry to see here two or three men for the accountancy of this treasury and for that of Terrenate; but, although the governors are accustomed to make that appointment, I cannot ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair

... him before he could control himself enough to hold them back. In another moment he was sorry. The thought that John Ball and the mad hunter were the same person he had kept to himself, until for reasons of his own he had let Mukoki into his secret. While the idea had taken larger and larger growth in his mind he knew that from every logical point of view the ...

— The Gold Hunters - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds • James Oliver Curwood

... with wood, and are also clean: things that must be thrown away are not thrown into the streets: they are collected in carts and carried away. You think that the streets of cities are kept clean by the rain? Not so: if we had only the rain as a scavenger we should be in a sorry plight. ...

— The History of London • Walter Besant

... to refer to antiquity, when Hayti, the glory of the blacks and terror of tyrants, is enough to convince the most avaricious and stupid of wretches—which is at this time, and I am sorry to say it, plagued with that scourge of nations, the Catholic religion; but I hope and pray God that she may yet rid herself of it, and adopt in its stead the Protestant faith; also, I hope that she may keep peace within her borders and be united, keeping a strict look out for tyrants, ...

— Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life - And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America • David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet

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