Definitions

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  • adjective Not regretful. Having no regrets.

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  • adjective feeling no regret

Etymologies

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un- +‎ regretful

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Examples

  • She was doubting now whether there had been any moral issue involved in her way of life — to walk unworried and unregretful along the gayest of all possible lanes and to keep her pride by being always herself and doing what it seemed beautiful that she should do.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • There was no possibility of Justine transferring herself and her belongings from the southern to the northern hemisphere as quickly as Dane had; by the time she worked out the season at the Culloden and bade a not unregretful farewell to Bothwell Gardens, her brother had been in Rome two months.

    The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977

  • She was doubting now whether there had been any moral issue involved in her way of life -- to walk unworried and unregretful along the gayest of all possible lanes and to keep her pride by being always herself and doing what it seemed beautiful that she should do.

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • They drove to the station, he was installed in a seat with a rug over his knees and a cushion at his back, and she hung out of the window waving unregretful farewells to the acquaintances she had really never liked till then.

    The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899

  • The secret of her birth, whatever it was, never came to light, but she took kindly, as Madam Delia had predicted, to "living genteel," and grew up into a well-behaved mediocrity, unregretful of the show-tent.

    Oldport Days 1873

  • The secret of her birth, whatever it was, never came to light but, she took kindly, as Madam Delia had predicted, to "living genteel," and grew up into a well-behaved mediocrity, unregretful of the show-tent.

    Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

  • In the early years of the welfare state, Lean's version pays sober attention to the plight of "the poorer classes" and its sets - fetid alleys, smoky tenements and rickety staircases - look like a last, unregretful survey of urban slums that were then being demolished.

    The Guardian World News Peter Conrad 2011

  • • Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • • Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • • Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

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