feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
<adj.all> felt regretful over his vanished youth regretful over mistakes she had made he felt bad about breaking the vase
bad; unfortunate
<adj.all> my finances were in a deplorable state a lamentable decision her clothes were in sad shape a sorry state of affairs
without merit
<adj.all> a sorry horse a sorry excuse a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick the car was a no-good piece of junk
causing dejection
<adj.all> a blue day the dark days of the war a week of rainy depressing weather a disconsolate winter landscape the first dismal dispiriting days of November a dark gloomy day grim rainy weather
Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. {Sorrier}; superl. {Sorriest}.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See {Sore}, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.] 1. Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling. ``I am sorry for my sins.'' --Piers Plowman.
Ye were made sorry after a godly manner. --2 Cor. vii. 9.
I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure. --Shak.
"He is the governor of our state and I have respect for him in that position and I'm sorry that the man doesn't understand what my philosophy is," Duke said. "He's operating on what he perceives my philosophy was 10 years ago or 15 years ago.
"I'm sorry it happened," he said. "It tears me up." The shooting of an opposition politician on the eve of the first multiparty elections in Soviet Georgia has created an atmosphere of fear and acrimony in this republic.
Conceding there isn't a medical proof of the phenomenon, she says, "I feel sorry for the nonbelievers who can't enjoy God's miracles."
His critics in the U.S. Congress and his Zairean opponents repeatedly have attacked him for mismanaging Zaire's economy and for his government's sorry human rights record.
Don't answer - they have probably found an unmentionable use for that as well. Is tonight the last pre-Christmas sex (sorry, adult programme) binge?
"I'm sorry sir, I am not familiar with your term.
Outside, the alleged burglar told Mrs. Wolko "I'm sorry, Ruth." Cruz was a complete gentleman throughout the ordeal, police said.
Considering we were once supreme in Europe, it has come to a sorry state.' Mr Bill Jordan, president of the AEEU 'Anybody with red, white and blue in his heart will feel it's a pity.
Bing's attorney, Paul Goldhamer, said he was gratified by the judge's decision, but was sorry it took so long.
After recapping the sorry experiences of 1985 and 1986, the editors of S&P's Credit Week decided to assess the outlook.
"All the inquiries are being handled by the press office upstairs," he said. "I am sorry I can't help you." The first account of the lessons appeared in The Washington Times on Thursday.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
"I'm sorry for the people in Chicago and Oklahoma," he said. "I think of that a lot." But prosecutor Joe Duffy said the two men must be punished because they had abused a special trust.
"I am sorry for Larry Speakes, because he cannot make from the book the money he lost from Merrill Lynch," where he was forced to resign from a public relations job, Gerasimov said.
President Bush says he's sorry Adm.
"I'm very sorry I did that," said Mrs. Dornan, her voice breaking. "You were all yelling at my husband, whom I love.
I said, `Well buddy, I'm sorry you have to do this, but this is life.'
"I still don't think she is mentally ill," Peterson said after the verdict. "What's there to be sorry about?
"I feel very sorry that I couldn't field a single opposition candidate and couldn't prevent the ruling party's unfair campaigning in the election," he said.
Sasha's tormentors are so sluggish in their abuse, so distracted by their sorry lives, that the frail, tenacious boy is able to slip through their grasps time and again.
Hilbert told the judge that he was sorry for what he had done and added that he had never taken a kickback or sold drugs to anyone in Mingo County.
Arias' left-leaning views did not sit well with the United States, which was not sorry to see him ousted after several days in office by National Guard commander Gen.
He said the Pulitzer board should make awards for ground-breaking stories, adding, "I'm sorry they failed to do this." Inquirer Managing Editor Gene Foreman called the Journal protest an "unfair attack on Tim's reporting."
He seemed embarrassed. 'I'm very sorry,' he said.
I FIND it hard not to feel sorry for Neil Kinnock.
On television, Chun said in a grim voice: "My dear people, I am really sorry.
But he thinks that the Dow industrials will push through the 3000 mark, "and sellers will say, `I'm sorry I sold.'" Rather than "resistance," Dow 3000 will soon be a floor of support, he predicts.
They just don't believe in the death penalty," Smith said. "They may end up being sorry. I won't elaborate on that.
Fifty-seven years ago William Shirer was fired by the Chicago Tribune, a parting he has said made him feel "very sorry for myself." The author of the classic "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," finally got his severance pay Tuesday.
It was "nothing to suggest we're afraid, but better safe than sorry," he said.