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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
regrettably
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Regrettably Jousse's work has not been translated into English.
Regrettably, a lot of the work in the show is of poor quality.
▪ Mr. Hart's comments were regrettably inappropriate.
▪ The poor and disadvantaged will, regrettably, be the ones to suffer as a result of the new law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As for this debut, it comes to us regrettably before its time.
▪ Attempts to denigrate his playing simply because of his popularity are misplaced but regrettably widespread.
▪ Over the years, more money has been put into education, but regrettably in certain areas little has been achieved.
▪ Some of these incidents occurred, regrettably, in public.
▪ The incident had simply been a regrettably dramatic way to begin his first week home from Ireland.
▪ The two works choreographed by Alley have regrettably little to offer where dance idioms are concerned.
▪ Today, regrettably, Churchillian honesty in high places is less fashionable.
▪ We have considered a topic which is, perhaps regrettably, not at the centre of Anglican attention.
Wiktionary
regrettably

adv. In a manner inspiring or deserving regret.

WordNet
regrettably

adv. by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay" [syn: unfortunately, unluckily, alas] [ant: fortunately, fortunately]

Usage examples of "regrettably".

I stated to Cheese that I could not regrettably answer his question, yet I would give him a cash gift of a thousand dollars in return for Cheese making his negro fiancee bathe thoroughly and then fellate me and then allow me to burn her with matches on the backs of her legs.

Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

Regrettably there is no method known to military science to tell a real officer from a glib imitation with pips on his shoulders, other than through ordeal by fire.

I knew that, Highborn, I would have a better idea myself whether to stand here, run away, or compose the last thoughts of my regrettably brief life.

Freedom of Speculation Act, credible sociohistorical data on the origins and evolution of Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents from obscure, adolescent, nihilistic Root Cult to one of the most feared cells in the annals of Canadian extremism was regrettably patchy and dependent on the hearsay of sources whose scholarly veracity was of an integrity somewhat less than unimpeachable.

Leo, the sign of his Birth, he's bless'd with a Stellium, of Mercury, Venus, and Mars, Mars being also conjunct his Sun, tho' both are regrettably squar'd Jupiter and Saturn.

Only now was he forced to recognize her for what she was, all she was--and regrettably, all she would not be.

Regrettably, in a time when body piercing for cosmetic purposes was no longer shocking, when ears and eyebrows and nostrils and lips and navels and even tongues were regularly drilled and fitted with baubles, the doctor couldn’.

Regrettably, your upbringing's left you ignorant of logic, let alone a profit-and-loss system of distribution and allocation and the voluntary division of labor.

Regrettably, he had no choice but to conclude that she hadn't made up her mind whether to keep the baby or to seek out an illegal abortion without Junior's approval.

He favoured me with a catalogue of the serviced he had rendered to the country, adding, a trifle infelicitously, I felt, a list of the distinguished persons whom he had -- as he regrettably put it -- forced to play ball with him.

Regrettably, the cradle had not been designed for field replacement, and it seemed to be attached to every other component inside the EG’s torso—and not by convenient micromagnetic fields.

Regrettably, the cradle had not been designed for field replacement, and it seemed to be attached to every other component inside the EG's torso--and not by convenient micromagnetic fields.

However, because the GC-MS analysis showed no evidence of organic molecules, most scientists concluded that the first three tests had been false positives and, regrettably, there was no life on Mars.

The soldiers of the heavenly emperor had brushed aside the insane profaners in the course of which the governor had most regrettably gone to his ancestors.