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(satellite adjective) feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; "a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulders"; "let him perish without a pitying thought of ours wasted upon him"- Thomas De Quincey |
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Synonyms: pitying, sorry for |
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(satellite adjective) keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase" |
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Synonyms: bad |
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(adjective) having regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made" |
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Synonyms: regretful |
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(satellite adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
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Synonyms: contrite, remorseful, rueful |
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(satellite adjective) very bad; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" |
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Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
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(satellite adjective) depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams |
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Synonyms: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy |
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(satellite adjective) without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" |
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Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
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