sorry
adjective
feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc..
sorrily
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a word derived from
sorry.
Example Sentences
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Sparagus thrives exceedingly, so does Garden Sorrel, and Sweet Bryer or Eglantine Bloodwort but sorrily, but Patience and English Roses very pleasantly.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
But it falls from us, vanishes, we are topping and slicing, and heeling, and missing again as sorrily as ever.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 by Various
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 Steinmetz, Andrew
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 Browning, William Ernst
The Apartments are spacious, but very sorrily furnish’d.
