sorry

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I'm sorry--sorry, do you hear?--the whole lot were not sacked.

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  1. adjective Feeling or expressing sympathy, pity, or regret: I'm sorry I'm late.
  2. adjective Worthless or inferior; paltry: a sorry excuse.
  3. adjective Causing sorrow, grief, or misfortune; grievous: a sorry development.

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  • I'm the one who should be sorry--sorry I did not tell you all about it when you first wanted to help me. —  104 - Birds Of Death
  • He'd left his sunglasses in the luggage he shoved hurriedly into the car's trunk -- sorry, the boot --back at the airport. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
  • Well, sorry, that is NOT what modeling as a career is all about. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • You see it's very difficult for anyone to understand why or how Obama may have signed two sheets of House of Commons letterhead for Dawn to inscribe her own message of undying love - sorry, approbation. —  British Blogs
  • Yes -- sorry, mom -- I did vote for John McCain in at least one Congressional election. —  Dealing in Subterfuges
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sad ·  unhappy ·  dear ·  glad ·  funny ·  sick ·  lucky ·  depress ·  ashamed ·  proud

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sorry:   sorrier ·  sorriest
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English sori, from Old English sārig, sad, from sār, sore.

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  1. Early modern English sorrie, sorie (sometimes, erroneously, sorowe); from Middle English sory, sori, sari, from Anglo-Saxon sāig, sad, sorry (not found in physical sense ‘sore’) (= Old Saxon sērag = Middle Dutch seerigh, sore, sad, sorry, Dutch zeerig, sore, full of sores, = Middle Low German sērich, sore, = Old High German sērag, Middle High German sērec, sērig = Sw sårig, sore, full of sores), from sār, pain, grief, sore: see sore. The word is thus from sore + -y It has become confused with sorrow, of which it is now the customary adjective in the lighter uses: see sorrow.
  2. from sorry, adjective; or a variant of sorrow.
 

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