sorrowful
Example Sentences
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I was shocked, but Father was only sorrowful.
From Literature
A complex, funny, plangently sorrowful Pygmalion story is enacted between two people who are connected but also held apart by their separate histories of oppression.
In solitary old age, Ondro has finally accepted his sorrowful calling as the memory keeper of the men who died.
But instead of taking a sorrowful approach, nearly all of the tracks were upbeat and felt more like elated sighs of relief rather than regret.
“Never did I see a more sorrowful sight, nor witness retribution to the nth degree,” he lamented.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
