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sorrowfully

ADVERB
regretfully
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It features a more demure production and Polachek sorrowfully singing, “Tryna find the lightswitch in the dark / burying the good girl I know I’m not,” with a simple strumming guiding her despair.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021

“We also sorrowfully acknowledge the historical and ongoing trauma and the legacy of suffering and challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples that continue to this day.”

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2021

Ronald Maathe, a 25-year-old janitor at a gym outside Uganda’s capital of Kampala, shook his head sorrowfully when saying that his monthly salary is now the equivalent of $43.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Her voice shifting as subtly as her pallor, she conjured to the stage both sides of a sorrowfully confounding mother-daughter relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2020

He went on sorrowfully, “But he’ll know. George always knows. He’ll say, ‘You done it.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck




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