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- one more sorry stunt like that and you'll be fired
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- we have sorry news to report tonight
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- the ragtag circus was a sorry spectacle indeed
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- she's genuinely sorry for hurting his feelings
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- was sorry to see the family farm being sold
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- bad,
- blue,
- brokenhearted,
- cast down,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- doleful,
- down,
- down in the mouth,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- droopy,
- forlorn,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- hangdog,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- heavyhearted,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- sorrowful,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
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- those sorry rituals that we go through when somebody dies are not for the dead but for the living
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- dirgelike,
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- melancholy
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- dispirited,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- tearful
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- ecstatic,
- elated,
- euphoric,
- exhilarated,
- giddy,
- heady,
- rapturous,
- rhapsodic
- (also rhapsodical)
- some sorry wretch had the task of putting all of those files back in order
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“Sorry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorry. Accessed 11 Apr. 2021.
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The first known use of sorry was before the 12th century
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