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sorrowfully

/sor-uh-fuhl, sawr-/US // ˈsɒr ə fəl, ˈsɔr- //

悲哀地,哀伤地,遗憾的是,悄悄地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
    • : showing or expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive: a sorrowful song.
    • : involving or causing sorrow; distressing: a sorrowful event.

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Examples

  • I can still remember the letter from Ambrose that the editor triumphantly - sorry, I meant sorrowfully - showed me.

  • Romney manages to speak highly and sorrowfully of the freedom agenda, and thus to praise Bush.

  • He was a dissident,” Havel told me sorrowfully “before he was a man.

  • "I have told you three times, my son, to shut the gate," said the gentleman sorrowfully.

  • Then she jumped down and sat on the floor, looking at the chair, and mewing sorrowfully.

  • When it was given, he took it sorrowfully up in his arms and carried it away to the waiting troop.

  • "Yes, I'll write," nodded Quentina, backing sorrowfully away.

  • "It couldna ha'e been worse," said Jenny Maitland sorrowfully to her next door neighbor.