regret
verb (used with object)
to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.).
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
Former days started up before her in a rapid vision, each bringing with it regretfulness for unkind words, deferred caresses, rough treatment even.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
And when they had drunk the wine their sorrowful memories went from them, and they spoke to each other without regretfulness.
From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Willy Pogany
Mostly he's full of a great relief—that's plain to see—but mixed in with it is a faint kind of a lurking regretfulness that she should a-broke loose from him so abrupt this-a-way.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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 Carl Christian Hyllested
