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

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

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

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

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

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