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Sorry   /sˈɑri/   Listen
Sorry

adjective
(compar. sorrier; superl. sorriest)
1.
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.  Synonyms: bad, regretful.  "Regretful over mistakes she had made" , "He felt bad about breaking the vase"
2.
Bad; unfortunate.  Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad.  "A lamentable decision" , "Her clothes were in sad shape" , "A sorry state of affairs"
3.
Without merit.  Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good.  "A sorry excuse" , "A lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick" , "The car was a no-good piece of junk"
4.
Causing dejection.  Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim.  "The dark days of the war" , "A week of rainy depressing weather" , "A disconsolate winter landscape" , "The first dismal dispiriting days of November" , "A dark gloomy day" , "Grim rainy weather"





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"Sorry" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, 'you won't let me go away sorry, will you? and I must go so soon. For my sake, when ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey
... "I always do what the ladies tell me to do; and I am more sorry than I can say, but I have to know beforehand when I am to tell a story, and indeed I haven't ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton
... straight, meet me at the storekeeper's office at three o'clock this afternoon. I hope by that hour to be in a position to apologize to you. In the meantime," his good nature, as with all persons of warm temperament, speedily returning, "if I have wronged you, I am sorry." ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... other and to make mutual little gifts. It was a most agreeable and enjoyable affair and quite looked forward to by all sections of the community. People who might not have met for months before were sure to meet there, and we all felt sorry when it came to an end. But the departure of people for dinner did not by any means bring the tamasha to a close, as later in the evening the elite of Dhurrumtollah and Bow Bazaar made their appearance, the ...
— Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century • Montague Massey
... evidently more friendly than fierce, but he was more diffident than friendly. He liked to have you in sight, but wouldn't have pretended to understand you much or to classify you, and would have been sorry it should put you under an obligation. He and his wife spoke sometimes, but seldom talked, and there was something vague and patient in them, as if they had become victims of a wrought spell. The spell however was of ...
— Pandora • Henry James


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