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

There was a slight regretfulness in her voice which had its meaning for him.

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

The ease and kindliness of his manner had suffered no abatement, although a little touch of regretfulness, just allowed to appear, forbade her to doubt that she had been understood.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan

"Learning all the world!" said her mother smiling, though there was a little touch of regretfulness not quite kept down.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan

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