Thesaurus / sorry
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In discussing his two leading characters, he has said, “I didn’t want us to feel sorry for them.”
LESBIAN LOVE STORY BECOMES THRILLER IN ‘TWO OF US’JOHN PAUL KINGFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON BLADEI’m even more sorry to report that Val Curtis, the British hygiene scholar we interviewed, died in October.
THE DOWNSIDE OF DISGUST (EP. 448)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 21, 2021FREAKONOMICSWe are truly sorry, but unfortunately, the vaccine supply is not under our control.
HOW OPERATION WARP SPEED CREATED VACCINATION CHAOSBY CAROLINE CHEN, ISAAC ARNSDORF AND RYAN GABRIELSONJANUARY 19, 2021PROPUBLICATo account for travel restrictions between the United States and Canada, the North Division — sorry, the Scotia North Division — is composed of the league’s seven Canadian teams.
WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN THE CAPS’ OFFSEASON, AND WHAT EXPERTS PREDICT FOR THIS SEASONSCOTT ALLENJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTTo attend and then leave, it is, “I’m sorry, I have to go now.”
MISS MANNERS: WHAT TO TELL ARTIST FRIENDS, BESIDES ‘THAT’S PRETTY!’JUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIf you were hoping that come 2021 ad spending would be back to pre-pandemic levels, I’m sorry to tell you that it still isn’t the case.
‘FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY WILL CONTINUE IN 2021’: HEADING INTO THE NEW YEAR, ADVERTISERS REMAIN CAUTIOUSKRISTINA MONLLOSJANUARY 5, 2021DIGIDAYIt was a sorry spectacle, squandering valuable presidential time and leadership, erroding trust in the FDA, and wrongly raising expectations of a quick and easy cure.
THE U.S. WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE A PANDEMIC. SO WHAT WENT WRONG?EDITORIAL BOARDDECEMBER 26, 2020WASHINGTON POSTDabelko doesn’t feel sorry for herself and said she’s more concerned about the hardships and tragedy the pandemic has brought to so many others in the country and around the world.
FOR COLLEGE FRESHMEN, PANDEMIC RESULTS IN A FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANY OTHERJOE HEIM, NICK ANDERSON, DANIELLE DOUGLAS-GABRIEL, SUSAN SVRLUGADECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAt one point, he said “how truly sorry” he was over the incident.
BETHESDA BIKE-TRAIL ASSAILANT PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULT IN FLIER-SNATCHING CASEDAN MORSEDECEMBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON POSTI am sorry for your personal and professional losses, and for your grief compounded by stress and uncertainty.
WHEN A BUSINESS OWNER DIES WITHOUT A SUCCESSION PLAN, EVERYONE IS THROWN INTO TURMOILKARLA MILLERDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWORDS RELATED TO SORRY
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- poor
- rueful
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discomposing
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discomposing
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
- bad
- calamitous
- dark
- dejecting
- deplorable
- depressing
- disastrous
- discomposing
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dreary
- funereal
- grave
- grievous
- hapless
- heart-rending
- joyless
- lachrymose
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- miserable
- moving
- oppressive
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poignant
- regrettable
- saddening
- serious
- shabby
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tragic
- unhappy
- unsatisfactory
- upsetting
- wretched
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