sorryishadj.
/ˈsɒrɪɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈsɔriɪʃ/, /ˈsɑriɪʃ/ Somewhat sorry (in various senses of the adjective).
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] > somewhat
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the mind > emotion > suffering > regret > [adjective] > somewhat
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1793 A. Seward Let. 5 Oct. (1811) III. 330 You would be sorryish to hear, that poor Moll Cobb..is gone to her long home.
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 241 The bridegroom..was a sorryish looking individual.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. 27 To be sure their idols were sorryish clay, to begin.
1968 B. Dryer Torch Bearers i. iv. 90 I'm left shaken and sorryish.
2005 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 17 Mar. 56 You have to feel sorry for a man who had expected a bedful of roses but instead finds daffodils threatening to take over. Well, sorryish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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