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more in sorrow than in anger

Saddened rather than infuriated by someone's behavior. For example, When Dad learned that Jack had stolen a car, he looked at him more in sorrow than in anger. This expression first appeared in 1603 in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1:2), where Horatio describes to Hamlet the appearance of his father's ghost: “A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.”

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Nearby words

  1. more and more,
  2. more bang for the buck,
  3. more dead than alive,
  4. more dict.,
  5. more fun than a barrel of monkeys,
  6. more often than not,
  7. more or less,
  8. more power to someone,
  9. more sinned against than sinning,
  10. more sol.
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