Similar words: regret, regress, egregious, segregate, segregated, regressive, segregation, desegregate. Meaning: [rɪ'gretəbl] 
adj. deserving regret.
adj. deserving regret. 
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1. This was a very regrettable error.
2. His tiredness caused him to make a regrettable error.
3. The loss of jobs is highly regrettable.
4. It is regrettable that...
5. It is regrettable that the police were not informed sooner.
6. Her rudeness was most / highly regrettable.
7. Taxes are a regrettable necessity.
8. It's regrettable that classical music receives so little attention.
9. Your choice of friends is regrettable.
10. It is highly regrettable that the minister cannot be here in person.
11. It was a regrettable incident but I now consider the matter closed.
12. Any job losses are regrettable.
13. Here they still appear as regrettable or puzzling distractions.
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14. The whole business was regrettable but not beyond redemption.
15. Against that background, it is regrettable that the Opposition intend to move to deny the Bill a Second Reading this evening.
16. There has been a marked and regrettable increase in reports from the town over the past year concerning the behaviour of students.
17. Instead, another regrettable aspect of her personality impelled her to smile specially at this man.
18. For a regrettable number, emotional instability and spiritual confusion remain long after the physical bruises have faded.
19. While regrettable, this will enable us to maintain the collections and improve the level of service that we currently offer.
20. Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that.
21. It was regrettable that the single justice had been advised that there was no need to pay regard to Meikle.
22. This fear became a regrettable visitor on certain anniversaries, my birthday, for instance, or I should say ours.
23. If the practice of subsidising denominational schools is regrettable, in Northern Ireland it is catastrophic.
24. The manner in which the decision was announced was extremely regrettable.
25. The President pleaded that strong rule from the centre was a regrettable, but temporary necessity.
26. The latest shortfall, for 1993-94, caused by yet more Republican mischief-making, is regrettable.
27. They will not do this if all the recent most regrettable and very negative publicity persists.
28. Shortly after his father died the new Earl said how regrettable it was that he had died alone.
29. What seems initially unique and disturbing can become a well-known if regrettable fact of life shared with many others.
30. The setting of such explicit quantitative targets, especially for the first few years, offered regrettable hostages to fortune.
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