- Apologetic - Feeling sorrow - Regretful - Remorseful - Sorry - Sorry to say Skippy can’t fit in another bite - Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
- Contrite - Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses;
repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and
resolved on amendment of life. - Doing penance. - One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his
transgressions. - One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one
undergoing penance. - One under the direction of a confessor.
- Maudlin drama or prose - Poignancy of interior of expat hospital - Quality that arouses pity - Sadness - That quality or property of anything which touches the
feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens
tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth
of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of
a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.