sorry
adjective
feeling regret, compunction, sympathy, pity, etc..
sorriness
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a word derived from
sorry.
Example Sentences
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“As old as I am,” Mounger said, “I got my greatest lesson on the sorriness of human nature at that time.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2016
Soon you will understand the sweetness of crying, of ears and sorriness and pastries and calves and diaphragms and tongues, each one as soothing as the last.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2010
His voice was thick with sorriness, and he could hardly get the words out.
From Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales by Metelerkamp, Sanni
In Fifine the Don Juan of tradition was lifted up into and haloed about with poetical splendours not his own; here he is depressed into an equally alien sorriness of prose.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
I had given thee this but, of the sorriness of thy doom and thy fortune, thou hast done this deed, O oppressor of thine own self!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
