saddening

“While all are saddened by their decision” not to come home and return to royal duties, Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, “remain much loved members of the family,” the palace said.

We are saddened by the suggestion that our past performances are viewed as somehow lacking, simply because we raced shorter distances than men.

It saddens me that some of our family's traditions will not continue, but I'll get over that.

They present a saddening spectacle, these faded reputations, these dethroned monarchs!

It was a saddening sight to see these beauties burning slowly away.

My disposition is so faultily anxious and foreboding that I am not likely to forget anything of a saddening sort.

But how saddening to think of the iniquities that the great harvest-moon is looking down on!

In one feeling something there is certain to be something that in being discouraging is not saddening.