What is "regrettable"

Usage examples of "regrettable".

I have this regrettable circumstance to thank for those which befell me at the end of the duration, when the argosy eventually came to dock in Sarribad.

With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs.

All very regrettable, but only natural: Henry Senior, in his attempt to cure William, has inflicted on the household a series of traumatic shocks, and as a consequence all its servant blood has been drawn away from the peripheries to the beleaguered heart.

And, regrettable though the circumstances may be, the absence of Agnes from the festivities has made possible one happy benefit: the presence of her daughter downstairs.

And among professional slayers and those who hire them, disagreements have a regrettable habit of ending in sudden deaths.

Mary was intrigued that they should both like looking at her during such unsavoury and generally rather regrettable moments.

Many years would pass before Patterson realized that the reason for this lay with a regrettable Ohio inventor named Thomas Midgley, Jr.

It is regrettable that a perfectly good coat had to be thrown away, but there was no alternative.

But if you share in the regrettable agitation of your inferiors, I will assure you that we are ready to fight if the humans attack.

Failure of equipment in the FarReaches is a most seriously regrettable safety lapse.

All he had to do now was convince this Archon, or judge or whatever he was, that it had been a regrettable accident.

The Ycl, while admirable in many ways, had regrettable appetites that would likely keep their world quarantined for quite some time.

Though he was always considerate, even kind in an impersonal way, she suspected that he viewed her as a regrettable piece of ancient history, a nuisance for whom he still felt a reluctant sense of responsibility.

Ideire, and it was regrettable, but inevitable, that the presence of the tourist trade would someday spark a grassroots backlash.

Falling foul of such an unposted hazard would be all the more regrettable, pitiful or even tragic, because the suffering arising from it is needless, and yet, this is simply our lot in life.