sorry sight
Lamentable thing witnessed
A sorry sight is something or someone that looks pitiful, pathetic, or distressingly worse for wear.
The phrase emphasizes visible deterioration or misfortune: After three days without sleep, I was a sorry sight.
It often carries a mix of sympathy and mild judgment—the subject deserves pity but perhaps also brought some trouble on themselves.
- pitifulArousing sorrowful contempt
- patheticArousing scornful pity
- wretchedExtremely unhappy or unfortunate
- miserableWretchedly unhappy, dejected
- forlornSad and abandoned
dejected · down and out · fallen on hard times · bedraggled · worse for wear · shabby · ragged · seen better days · disheveled · heartbreaking · tragic · lamentable · woeful · pitiable · desolate · haggard · gaunt · dead on one's feet
- Shakespeare phrasesto be or not to be, et tu Brute, all the world's a stage, out damned spot, friends Romans countrymen
sorry, sight, sorrow, sorrowful, sorrowfully, sorrowing, sorrowed, sights, sighted