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”

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

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”

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

bad; unfortunate

• “my finances were in a deplorable state”
• “a lamentable decision”
• “her clothes were in sad shape”
• “a sorry state of affairs”

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

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”