be sorry

Synonyms

rue hated regret repent apologize lament mourn repentant deplore apologise anathematize bewail repenting

Examples

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility. Dorotheus of Gaza

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been. Arthur Ransome

I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better. George Frideric Handel

It's better to be sorry and stay, than to be sorry and go away. Irish Proverb

Words in the phrase

be sorry

Close letter words and terms

be something be sore be sorrowful be sorry about be sorry to be sound