Alternatives to "Sorry"

The problem here is that “sorry” both conveys sympathy without fault and sympathy with fault, i.e. “I’m sorry your feelings were hurt” vs. “I’m sorry I hurt your feelings”.

It is literally difficult to convey sorry without adding additional qualifiers.

To make things more confusing, “sorry-not-sorry” expresses unsympathy with fault.

This complication makes me believe we need another permutation that expresses sympathy even when fault of the speaker is assumed incorrectly.