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sorry
A	adjective
	1	dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry
			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

	2	pitying, sorry, sorry for(p)
			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

	3	deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry
			bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"

	4	bad, sorry
			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"

	5	regretful, sorry
			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"

	6	contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful, sorry
			feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

	7	good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry
			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"

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