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Sad

adjective

(compar. sadder; superl. saddest)

Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness. "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"

Of things that make you feel sad. "She doesn't like sad movies" , "It was a very sad story" , "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"

Bad; unfortunate. Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sorry. "A lamentable decision" , "Her clothes were in sad shape" , "A sorry state of affairs"

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"Sad" Quotes from Famous Books

... appalled at the extent of the destruction. Rapidly he passed through the ruins toward the forest beyond, where he knew he would find Jack or some trace of him. And there he came upon the sad ...

— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake

... when he was a chap of twenty he killed a Gentile, and buried the dead meat under ground. He was taken up for the murder, but as no one could find the cold meat, the justices let him go. He said that the job did not sit heavy upon his mind for a long time, but then all of a sudden he became sad, and afraid of the dead Gentile's ghost; and that often of a night, as he was coming half-drunk from the public-house by himself, he would look over his right shoulder and over his left shoulder, to know if the dead man's ghost was not coming behind ...

— Romano Lavo-Lil - Title: Romany Dictionary - Title: Gypsy Dictionary • George Borrow

... small ray into our sad, sad den, And when in their four faces I beheld That carking grief which mine own visage held, Mine hands for grief I bit, and they, who then Deemed that I did it from desire to eat, Stood up each one at once upon ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... and roof of this grotto still weep bitter tears in memory of the event that transpired on Calvary, and devout pilgrims groan and sob when these sad tears fall upon them from the dripping rock. The monks call this apartment the "Chapel of the Invention of the Cross"—a name which is unfortunate, because it leads the ignorant to imagine that a tacit acknowledgment is thus made that the tradition that ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... and twenty miles an hour," I hear Brennan saying, in that sad voice of his; "or maybe two hundred. ...

— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

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