regretfulness

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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

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

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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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 Pogany, Willy

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)