Definition of Sorry

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Definition of Sorry

Sorry

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.

Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.

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Sorry Quotations

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Mitch Hedberg

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther

Sorry Translations

sorry in Italian is scusa, afflitto, purtroppo
sorry in Spanish is pesaroso, excusa, afligido
sorry in Swedish is ledsen

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