sorrowful

[ sor-uh-fuhl, sawr- ]

/ ˈsɒr ə fəl, ˈsɔr- /

full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.

showing or expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive: a sorrowful song.

involving or causing sorrow; distressing: a sorrowful event.

Origin of sorrowful

before 900; Middle English sorowful, Old English sorgful. See sorrow, -ful

1 unhappy, grieving.

2 melancholy.

3 piteous, heartbreaking.

sor·row·ful·ly, adverb sor·row·ful·ness, noun o·ver·sor·row·ful, adjective o·ver·sor·row·ful·ly, adverb

o·ver·sor·row·ful·ness, noun

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

Arab Spring Comment Was a Romney Love Letter to the Israeli Right Wing |Michael Tomasky |July 28, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
He was a dissident,” Havel told me sorrowfully “before he was a man.

Vaclav Havel Was Torn Between Socialism and Freedom |Geoffrey Robertson |December 22, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
This was not said sorrowfully, but with a bright gleam as of some fancied and pleasant possibility.

The Carpenter's Daughter |Anna Bartlett Warner
"I have given you no cause to hate me," said Belle, looking me sorrowfully in the face.

Res Judicat |Augustine Birrell

"She has rejected him, I see it by your face; I suspected it from his wanderings," she said, sorrowfully.

Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life |Ann S. Stephens
"All right—if you say so," the poor child said sorrowfully, and I knew that her affection for me had been put to a fiery test.

At the Age of Eve |Kate Trimble Sharber
The children sympathized with her and said one after the other, sorrowfully, "What a pity, what a pity!"

Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country |Johanna Spyri