sorry
adjective
feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc..
sorrily
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a word derived from
sorry.
Example Sentences
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The last-named, too, was another La Fontaine in simplicity, preparing for his grandest predications by sorrily rasping on an execrable fiddle.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
President Washington, while in New York, oftener than many thought proper, attended the old, sorrily furnished play-house in John Street, the only one which the city could then boast.
From History of the United States, Volume 2 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
I'll stay and read 'em now at home a-days, Because Parcus wrote but sorrily Thy notes, I'll read Lambinus thoroughly; And then I shall be stoutly set a-gog To challenge every Irish Pedagogue.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning
Its main features were roughly built cottages, sorrily kept potato plots, pigsties, and smells.
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
He marked the raising of the black flag as the Gaston castaways, getting sorrily afloat one by one, cleared their decks for action.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
