Crossword clues for saddened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sadden \Sad"den\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saddened; p. pr. & vb. n. Saddening.] To make sad. Specifically:
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To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.]
Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands.
--Mortimer. To make dull- or sad-colored, as cloth.
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To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sadden)
Usage examples of "saddened".
And though saddened by the change in his friend, Adams sensed he was right, that a moral shift had taken place.
Landreau made his voice sound reasonable, even saddened by the clandestine activities of Todd and Hrriss.
She reached over to pat Willow's hand, for the reminder saddened the princess.
While he would be deeply saddened, he could not see how his personal feelings would amount to a catastrophe.
Except for Asia whose deep blue-grey eyes always saddened whenever he caught her looking at him in the monthly tutorial sessions.
A second image, of a grieving Ampris, saddened by a misdemeanor of his flock -- saddened but infinitely tolerant and forgiving -- capped her disgust with the entire exercise.
The laughter in his eyes saddened briefly into wistfulness, then brusqueness as he held her away from him and said, "We'd better go now.
Nuella reached out for the familiar wispy touch of her favorite watch-wher and got back saddened darkness.
But Leasowes had fallen into neglect since the poet's death, and Jefferson was greatly saddened and disappointed.
However crushed, disappointed, saddened, however difficult it was for him to bear up, he expressed no bitterness or envy, and no anger.
He wrote, ‘I was saddened to see that your injury prevented you from joining in the dancing at my betrothal festivities.
If I had been inclined to the Fool’s fatalistic melancholy, perhaps it would have saddened me.
I was accustomed to his need for privacy, but now there was a dullness to his avoidance of me that saddened me.
He sighed, profoundly saddened that, through the hours he had spent gardening in the past, he had never pause] to appreciate the results of his labors.
That saddened her, because over their three-day march, she had come to like the Good Servant, whose curiosity held so much compassion for others, and whose hope was to change the, course of Tsuranuanni's future.