sorrowful
/ˈsɑɹoʊfəl/ adjective C2- exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
- Producing sorrow; causing grief. · sorrowful accident
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He says it kills all the rats and—oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, “I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!” For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more _here_.”
“This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush.
It makes me feel so sorrowful--just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing.
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