Xem thêm: pitying, regretful, bad, deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, drab, drear, dreary, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good
sorry adj.
VERBS be, feel, seem, sound | make sb I'll make you sorry you were ever born!
ADV. awfully, deeply, desperately, dreadfully, extremely, frightfully, genuinely, really, terribly, truly, very I'm really sorry Jane can't come with us. I'm terribly sorry. I didn't catch your name. | almost She was almost sorry to stop work. | a bit, a little, quite, rather
PREP. about I'm sorry about the noise. I'm sorry about your mother. I do hope she'll soon be feeling better. | for She is obviously deeply sorry for what she has done. I feel really sorry for John.
PHRASES better safe than sorry
adj.
a pitying observer threw his coat around her shoulder
felt regretful over his vanished youth
regretful over mistakes she had made
he felt bad about breaking the vase
my finances were in a deplorable state
a lamentable decision
her clothes were in sad shape
a sorry state of affairs
a blue day
the dark days of the war
a week of rainy depressing weather
a disconsolate winter landscape
the first dismal dispiriting days of November
a dark gloomy day
grim rainy weather
a sorry horse
a sorry excuse
a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
the car was a no-good piece of junk
