remorseful

• She had only to feel a pang of half-remorseful, half-humorous affection for him, and she knew what Lucy felt like in her love-sick agony. —  The Three Brontes
• Andrew was so remorseful, and so terribly afraid of her, she ended up comforting him. —  Garwood, Julie - The Secret
• Dennis's look at the skeleton was remorseful, his hand drawn down the long femur bone in a gesture that suggested it was flesh and blood he touched. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• ‘Lysander—my dear son!’ Immediately remorseful, the commanding man who was his father strode across the room and gripped Lysander reassuringly by the shoulder, at the same time bestowing a smile of startling wattage upon Ianthe. —  TheMediterraneanMillionaire’sMistress
• These thoughts made me feel remorseful, and put me in a fever to get to work, to begin to do something. —  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the Same Context