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Definition of Sorriest
1. sorry [adj] - See also: sorry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorriest
Literary usage of Sorriest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Castilian Days by John Hay (1903)
"Now the bull is baited and slain by hired artists, and the horses they mount are
the sorriest hacks that ever went to the knacker. One of the most brilliant ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"M, Holford paper to the sorriest end, they also expose along with it much more
paper, covered with what the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool must consider ..."
3. Life of Mrs. Siddons by Thomas Campbell (1834)
"Of sorriest fancies your companions making ? Using those thoughts which should
... No; all her thoughts are now directed to divert his from those sorriest ..."
4. Life of Mrs. Siddons by Thomas Campbell (1834)
"No; all her thoughts are now directed to divert his from those sorriest fancies,
by turning them to the approaching banquet, in exhorting him to conciliate ..."
5. The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers, George Steevens, Henry Fuseli (1811)
"How now, my lord ? why do you keep alone, Of sorriest ... sorriest fancies—] ie
worthless, ignoble, vile. 4 In restless ecstacy. ..."
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