Crossword-Solution: REGRETFUL 9 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Regretful a. Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.

We have 15 clues for the answer “REGRETFUL”

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Wishing something had not happened 1 answer
Wish undone 6 answers
Ashamed 23 answers
pitying 24 answers
repentant 29 answers
Contrite 31 answers
Penitent 31 answers
grieved 35 answers
apologetic 37 answers
Mortified 40 answers
Afraid 45 answers
Hangdog 48 answers
remorseful 49 answers
sorrowing 52 answers
Sorry 58 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REGRETFUL (5)

Sally was holding the candles by the opposite door, which led to the bedrooms upstairs, and the Comtesse was in the act of beating a hasty retreat before that enemy who owned such a sweet musical voice; Suzanne reluctantly was preparing to follow her mother, whilst casting regretful glances towards the door, where she hoped still to see her dearly-beloved, erstwhile school-fellow.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
She peeped from the window into the garden, and felt herself more regretful at leaving this spot of black earth, vitiated with such an age-long growth of weeds, than joyful at the idea of again scenting her pine forests and fresh clover-fields.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Rowland was rather regretful, for he knew that theory was not his friend’s strong point, and that it was never fair to take his measure from his talk.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Knight half promised to call on his return journey; but the uncertainty with which he spoke was quite enough to fill Elfride with a regretful interest in all he did during the few remaining hours.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
Praxed’s, his sense of the vanity of the world simply because the world is passing out of his reach, the regretful memory of the pleasures of his youth, the envious spite towards Gandolf, who robbed him of the best position for a tomb, and the dread lest his reputed sons should play him false and fail to carry out his designs, are united with a perfect appreciation of Renaissance art, and a luxurious satisfaction, which even a death-bed cannot destroy, in the splendor of voluptuous form and color.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008

Quotes with REGRETFUL (3)

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened between us earlier and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over. I looked at him, and I felt so sad, because this thought occurred to me: 'I will never look at you the same way again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her …
Jenny Han It's Not Summer Without You
In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were trapped, defaults, mutually committed, left holes everywhere in their lives. When you read their letters to each other it is often necessary to consult the signature in order to be sure which one has done the writing. Their tone about themselves, their mood, is the fatal one of nostalgia--a passive, consuming, repetitive poetry. Sometimes one…
Elizabeth Hardwick Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
I wish I could run away,” Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients’ rooms, darting around like little ants. “I can’t leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway.”“Why?” asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. “It’d break her heart if I left.”“Ain’t that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin’ up?”“Not for me, it isn’t.” Jersey made a p…
Rebecca McNutt Danvers: The Reckoning
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).