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

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

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

"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

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 Mitford, Bertram