Antonyms for regretfullyre·gret·ful·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. regretfullyadverb

   with regret (used in polite formulas)

   "I must regretfully decline your kind invitation"

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1. The WEF:

   Regretfully, the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination roll out and the uncertainty around new variants combine to make it impossible to realise a global meeting with business, government and civil society leaders from all over the world at the scale which was planned.

2. Chairman Frazier:

   We invite you to join us in protecting the lives of our people and those that live on this reservation. I regretfully decline your request.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   It's pretty obvious we were not able, in the House, to pass a replacement. Our Democratic friends ought to be pretty happy about that because we have the existing law in place, and I think we are just going to have to see how that works out, we believe it will not work out well, but we'll see. They have an opportunity now to have the status quo, regretfully.

4. Li Keqiang:

   Very regretfully it was shelved by the Myanmar government in 2011. But the contract is still in force. How to push this cooperation forward is an important thing for both countries, i think that the existing government has no time to get this project restarted. I believe that once the new government is in office, the Chinese government will continue to discuss with them how to restart this project.

5. Helen Keller:

   When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.

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