"felt regretful over his vanished youth"
"regretful over mistakes she had made"
"he felt bad about breaking the vase"
"my finances were in a deplorable state"
"a lamentable decision"
"her clothes were in sad shape"
"a sorry state of affairs"
"a sorry horse"
"a sorry excuse"
"a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"
"the car was a no-good piece of junk"
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
"a week of rainy depressing weather"
"a disconsolate winter landscape"
"the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
"a dark gloomy day"
"grim rainy weather"
