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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

"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

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

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