regretfulness
Example Sentences
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Occasionally, welcome self-incrimination creeps into the schematic monologues, as exemplified by the arrogance of a hedge fund manager, or the regretfulness of a publicist, who has given his life over to feeding egos.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2021
And to this was added an indefinable fear, now when the irrevocable separation confronted her; the thought that she was to leave her home was tinged with a vague sense of regretfulness, of impalpable foreboding.
From Shallow Soil by Carl Christian Hyllested
His thoughts would, at times, travel backward, and that in spite of himself, and they would land him with a lingering, though unacknowledged, regretfulness, on the deck of the Persian.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
It was spoken with a grave regretfulness that troubled Nasmyth and yet stirred him to strong appreciation of her character.
From The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss
Esther listened silently, with perfect faith in the speaker and his statements, with a little undefined sort of regretfulness.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
