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saddest

  • superlative of sad.

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Saddest of all, Karen rarely speaks any longer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the movie “Spinal Tap,” but that’s where the title “The Saddest of All Keys” comes from.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022

Once Bridgers signed Muna to her Saddest Factory Records label in 2021, their fortunes changed overnight.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022

Palmer says she and Congleton joked about titling Palmer’s third solo album “The Saddest Record in the World.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2019

Saddest of all fates indeed must it be to gaze on Heaven and to live in Hell.

From The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by Wilmot-Buxton, H. J.