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What (who) is awfully sorry - definition
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Sorry!; Sorry (song); Sorry (disambiguation); User:John Andy De Juan; Sorry (album); Sorry (film)
Sorry
·adj Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
II. Sorry ·adj Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
III. Sorry ·adj 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.
sorry
adj.
1) dreadfully, terribly sorry
2) sorry about
3) sorry for (she is sorry for him; we are sorry for being late)
4) sorry to + inf. (I am sorry to inform you that your application has been rejected)
5) sorry that + clause (we are sorry that you weren't able to come)
sorry
a.
1.
Grieved, afflicted, pained, sorrowful.
2.
Vexed, chagrined, mortified, pained, hurt, dejected.
3.
Mean, vile, base, poor, miserable, wretched, pitiful, abject, beggarly, rascally, contemptible, despicable, shabby, bad, low, paltry, worthless.
4.
Mournful, dismal, sad, painful, melancholy.
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Sorry
Sorry is a word commonly used in apologizing. Sorry may also refer to:
Examples of use of awfully sorry
1. Frida told The Mail on Sunday: "I feel awfully sorry about Rosie and the family.
2. Well I‘m awfully sorry but I have had cancer twice and you can‘t come through that without it leaving a mark on you.
3. There is no relationship." At her home in Switzerland, where she lives in tax exile having made millions from hits including Waterloo and The Winner Takes It All, she added: "I feel awfully sorry about Rosie and the family.
4. We can not issue urgent injunctions for new citizens to integrate and say "we‘re awfully sorry but we couldn‘t possibly let anybody (ourselves included) in on the secret of quite what it is that they should integrate into." Our great postwar identity debates – over the union of Britain‘s four nations; post–war immigration and multiculturalism and Britain‘s reluctant Europeanism – have for too long run on separate tracks.
5. I think it is analogous to a state of war we have got into ... I deeply deplore it shoot to kill because I think we ought to be able to keep a distinction between what are the rules of engagement in war and what are the rules of engagement in a civilian situation, however dangerous ... I don‘t like the policy, but given the policy I think the police are bound to come up against this type of awful mistake every now and then and I feel awfully sorry for them.