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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sadden .
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Examples
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It kind of saddens me that people actually buy into this sort of thing.
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The crocodile tears he is now shedding, in claiming that the resolution "saddens" him, is simply another example of him talking out of two sides of his mouth.
Alan Dershowitz: Goldstone Criticizes UN Council on Human Rights 2009
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Obviously it kind of saddens you, but that doesn't affect me.
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Obviously it kind of saddens you, but that doesn't affect me.
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Look close and you see, as he writes, how a certain green "saddens" grey, how yellow against cobalt stimulates hope, how a farmer may be shaped by the landscape.
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Saddened: the infamous Frank Lampard goal for England against Germany in the World Cup second round 'saddens' the linesman who failed to spot it.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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It saddens me that those of us who live in small towns accross central U.S.A. are riduculed by east/west coast people.
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It saddens me that Senator Inhofe would refuse to meet with the nominee despite his opinion on her.
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I think what most Republican supporters are failing to grasp is not that these peole are busy having affairs it's that they stand there and preach about how the GOP is the party of morality in America and how it saddens them to see the decay of our society at the hands of liberals.
Sanford releases statement: 'I ask for your forgiveness' 2009
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What saddens me reading the comments here and elsewhere is that we still focus on how "bad" the other sex is.
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