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
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
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
Esther listened silently, with perfect faith in the speaker and his statements, with a little undefined sort of regretfulness.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
"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 Susan Warner
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