What is the meaning of Sorry?

(a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse.
(a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
(a.) Grieved for the loss of some good; pained for some evil; feeling regret; -- now generally used to express light grief or affliction, but formerly often used to express deeper feeling.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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