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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Moreover, the figure near at hand suffers on such occasion, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honoured, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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 C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
