(v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
(v. i.) To become, or be made, sad.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are deeply saddened," said Nyan Win, a spokesman of National League for Democracy.
(2) A statement from the club read: "Everybody at Sheffield United is extremely shocked and saddened to learn of the death of former player and manager Gary Speed.
(3) Maybe that's why it saddens me so much to say that with every passing generation, the original syntactical structure of a language diminishes further.
(4) A spokesman for Downing Street said: "The prime minister was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Gary Speed, who was greatly respected by football fans across the country both as a player and manager.
(5) In a statement issue by his office, British prime minister David Cameron said: "I am deeply saddened by the news that the bodies of the three Israeli boys kidnapped on 12 June have been found this evening.
(6) It said in a statement: "We are saddened and upset by the recent suicides at Foxconn.
(7) Vandals have spray painted the word “evil” across a far north Queensland mosque – an act the local mayor describes as deeply saddening.
(8) I am truly saddened by Dick’s decision but I respect him for his honesty and for doing what he feels is right for the club,” said Sunderland’s owner.
(9) The NCYPE's chief executive, David Ford, said: "We are very saddened to hear this news.
(10) "I'm aware that a number of my friends will be saddened, or shocked, or shocked-saddened, over some of the chapters of The Catcher in the Rye.
(11) It still saddens me that we insist on having the changeover in August in the middle of school holidays and by far the busiest month for consultants to take their leave.
(12) Sports journalist Patrick Kidd said he was "immensely saddened" by Harding's "enforced resignation".
(13) Michelle Mitchell, charity director at Age UK, said they were greatly saddened to hear of the two deaths.
(14) Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, added: "We are shocked and saddened to hear the news that a teacher has been stabbed to death at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
(15) In his article, Smith writes: "What really saddens me, though, is seeing the Environment Agency's work and expertise in flood-risk management, internationally respected and locally praised in many parts of the country, being used as a political football for a good media story."
(16) Last week, Ward said he was "saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new state of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza".
(17) Ghani immediately sacked Sharifi and said in a statement he was “deeply saddened” by the incident.
(18) I am saddened by what is happening to Yemen – the wars, the bombings, the destruction,” said Samir.
(19) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, who spoke on the phone with Marois in what was described as a "cordial first contact", said he was "angered and saddened" by the shooting.
(20) "I would not only be surprised but deeply saddened if I thought anyone came away from that video feeling taken advantage of, or compromised in any way," she wrote.
Sadder
Definition:
(n.) Same as Sadda.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sight of a child's toy bike on a shelf in the kitchen made me sadder than the rocket damage.
(2) It sometimes evoked sadder emotions but it was always visually pleasing.
(3) No political career could be sadder than that of a man who, having leap-frogged into the cabinet over the ministers of state above him, is, 20 years later, voted, "12th most effective backbencher".
(4) What makes their plight even sadder is that most have no idea what sort of country they’re entering.
(5) It's an unrequited love story between the chimp and the star, but there's something about the abasement in that relationship (like, it's not just unrequited … one of them is a chimp) that purifies the tragedy, makes everything less mediated and much sadder.
(6) It's hard to think of a sadder and more brutal undoing of such a high-profile image than what has happened to Lawson.
(7) "No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favour with some Americans by castigating others," Daniels said.
(8) There are few kitchen sights sadder than a deep-tin drizzle cake which is sodden on top with a bone dry bottom.
(9) However, volunteers were sadder, more discouraged, and less interested in others than clinic patients.
(10) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
(11) As it happens, another half-century anniversary will take place next month, one also involving an American woman, but of a much sadder shade: on 11 February it will be 50 years since Sylvia Plath took her life and gained immortality.
(12) And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires.
(13) One final idea, if you'll bear with me, is that perhaps Jimmy Carr exists to remind us of the jokes that have been crushed for years under the feminine jackboot of political correctness: witness, in the same show, his triumphant resurrection of, "There's nothing sadder than a woman with two black eyes.
(14) Older, sadder and wiser, they were there to demonstrate that they get voter concerns about petrol prices and school standards (Basildon's troubled academies are front page news in the Echo), manufacturing and help for remote regions (Essex?).
(15) He described himself as sad after his dire local elections, but Nick Clegg looks considerably sadder today.
(16) The depressed patients were sadder and complained of more loss of libido than did the anxious patients.
(17) What made it all the sadder was the fact he was nice, decent and humane.
(18) "Splosh" fetishists are typically somewhat sadder creatures than these – the whole thing smacks abjectly of the nursery – but Linder and friend looked like glamorous aliens or a kind of deconstructed Leigh Bowery .
(19) You certainly come back out on to the street sadder and wiser than when you entered.
(20) There have been fewer sadder spectacles than the calm, academic Bernanke explaining to a room of incredulous reporters why the Fed did not take more extreme action to "save" the economy and goose the markets.