a. [f. SORRY a.] Somewhat sorry.
1793. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), III. 330. You would be sorryish to hear, that poor Moll Cobb, as Dr Johnson used to call her, is gone to her long home.
1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, I. 241. The bridegroom was a sorryish looking individual.
1863. Reade, Hard Cash, III. 27. To be sure their idols were sorryish clay, to begin.