Crossword clues for sorriest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorry \Sor"ry\, a. [Compar. Sorrier; superl. Sorriest.] [OE. sory, sary, AS. s[=a]rig, fr. s[=a]r, n., sore. See Sore, n. & a. The original sense was, painful; hence, miserable, sad.]
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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. ``I am sorry for my sins.''
--Piers Plowman.Ye were made sorry after a godly manner.
--2 Cor. vii. 9.I am sorry for thee, friend; 't is the duke's pleasure.
--Shak.She entered, were he lief or sorry.
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Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
--Spenser.All full of chirking was this sorry place.
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Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse. ``With sorry grace.''
--Chaucer.Cheeks of sorry grain will serve.
--Milton.Good fruit will sometimes grow on a sorry tree.
--Sir W. Scott.Syn: Hurt; afflicted; mortified; vexed; chagrined; melancholy; dismal; poor; mean; pitiful.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlativesorry)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: bad]
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 [syn: pitying, sorry for(p)]
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" [syn: regretful] [ant: unregretful]
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [syn: contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful]
bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad]
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 [syn: dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy]
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" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good]
See sorry
Usage examples of "sorriest".
You see one airplane, a windsock, a barn serving as a hangar and aircraft production line, and maybe the world's sorriest set of shacks passing themselves off as 'quarters' on a so-called 'air force base.
Not to mention that most of Gustav's 'loyal princes'—Protestant or not—are the sorriest pack of treacherous scumbags you'll ever hope to meet in your life.
Ruled over—wherever the English haven't grabbed the land—by the sorriest pack of mangy clan chiefs you'll ever find.
They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful.
A Syrian village is the sorriest sight in the world, and its surroundings are eminently in keeping with it.
Let me guess, they’d be the poorest, dumbest, sorriest sacks of shit in the whole crew.
And when I do, I will by God make whoever it was the sorriest piece of scum ever to wear Manticoran uniform.