regretfulness

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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 Hyllested, Carl Christian

She gave a little grave glance at him, grave with a background of regretfulness, and placed herself back in her former position; pushing her questions no further.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

But she pleaded for one more dance, and then one more, and finally with much seeming regretfulness allowed her uncle to slip on her cloak for her.

From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson

Mostly he's full of a great relief—that's plain to see—but mixed in with it is a faint kind of a lurking regretfulness that she should a-broke loose from him so abrupt this-a-way.

From J. Poindexter, Colored by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)