a. [f. SORRY a.] Somewhat sorry.

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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.

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1853.  G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, I. 241. The bridegroom … was a sorryish looking individual.

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1863.  Reade, Hard Cash, III. 27. To be sure their idols were sorryish clay, to begin.

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