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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
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
Yes, I think Herrick would have forgiven me for that momentary lapse into regretfulness over the white hawthorn.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
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
