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单词 more in sorrow than in anger
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  • I'd guess they told him to come across as genially disappointed, more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, and he kind of went off the rails.

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more in sorrow than in anger


Saddened rather than infuriated by someone's behavior. For example, When Dad learned that Jack had stolen a car, he looked at him more in sorrow than in anger. This expression first appeared in 1603 in Shakespeare's Hamlet (1:2), where Horatio describes to Hamlet the appearance of his father's ghost: “A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.”

Words nearby more in sorrow than in anger

Morecambe, more dead than alive, more dict., moreen, more fun than a barrel of monkeys, more in sorrow than in anger, moreish, morel, Morelia, morello, Morelos
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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