regretable
- a variation of regrettable.
Example Sentences
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As to the strength of his prejudice and his regretable coarseness, one quotation will be enough to display both.
From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George
It is regretable that the index of the translation is worthless as its contents are valuable.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Some sacrifice of individual impulses is, of course, essential to the existence of an ordered community, and this degree of sacrifice is, as a rule, not regretable even from the individual's point of view.
From The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Russell, Bertrand
Among the many losses which American ethnology has suffered, that of the text of the native dramas is one of the most regretable.
From Aboriginal American Authors by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
It is regretable that so trenchant a state-paper should begin with so gross and palpable a fallacy.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
