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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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... brothers-in-arms were now the scum of adventurers, always ready to plunder the peasants. In addition to three days a week which the peasants had to work for the lord, they had also to bear all sorts of exactions for the right to sow and to crop, to be gay or sad, to live, to marry, or to die. And, worst of all, they were continually plundered by the armed robbers of some neighbouring lord, who chose to consider them as their master's kin, and to take upon them, and upon their cattle and crops, the revenge for a feud he was fighting ...

— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... the birth of his godchild Destiny, poor Sir Walter began to show signs of that general break-up of mind and body so speedily followed by his death. Of this sad state Miss Ferrier writes to her sister, Mrs. Kinloch ...

— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... old man Sir Guy is," said Catherine, interrupting my sad reflections, "and how gallant; he is ...

— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

... the annexation of Texas, lest his countrymen should fill it with slaves; Madison, who said, "slavery is the greatest evil under which the nation labors—a portentous evil—an evil, moral, political, and economical—a sad blot on our free country"—went mournfully into old age with the cheerless words: "No satisfactory plan has yet been devised for taking out ...

— Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln - Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America • George Bancroft

... during to the 1999 Kosovo conflict, the Serbian rail system suffered significant damage due to bridge destruction; many rail bridges have been rebuilt, but the bridge over the Danube at Novi Sad was still down in early 2000; however, a by-pass is available; ...

— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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