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
But she did not tell them of the sorriness of her situation: it might have brought reproach upon him.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
An odd feeling of sorriness for her step-mother came over Joan.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
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
