Definitions
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- adjective Not regretful. Having no
regrets .
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- adjective feeling no regret
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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• Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair
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• Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair
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• Mark Steel: The moment you think of voting Labour, up pops the unregretful Tony Blair
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