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

Esther listened silently, with perfect faith in the speaker and his statements, with a little undefined sort of regretfulness.

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan

And when they had drunk the wine their sorrowful memories went from them, and they spoke to each other without regretfulness.

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy

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

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