sorriness

Example Sentences

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“As old as I am,” Mounger said, “I got my greatest lesson on the sorriness of human nature at that time.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2016

Soon you will understand the sweetness of crying, of ears and sorriness and pastries and calves and diaphragms and tongues, each one as soothing as the last.”

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010

The king asked, "What is the story of the merchant and how was his luck changed upon him by the sorriness of his doom?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

And her sorriness held her heart warm, in the glow of giving comfort.

From The Fortieth Door by Bradley, Mary Hastings

In Fifine the Don Juan of tradition was lifted up into and haloed about with poetical splendours not his own; here he is depressed into an equally alien sorriness of prose.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)