Saying 'alas,' perhaps
Else clues• Being contrite
• Being sorry for
• Contrite
• Experiencing regret
• Feeling badly about
• Feeling contrite
• Feeling regret
• Feeling remorse
• Feeling remorse about
• Feeling sorry about
• Feeling sorry for
• Having certain misgivings
• Having regrets
• Having second thoughts
• Having second thoughts about
• In a state of regret
• Kicking oneself
• Lamenting
• Not happy about
• Penitent act
• Penitent's activity
• Regretful
• Regrettable act?
• Regretting
• Regretting greatly
• Remorseful
• Repentant
• Showing regret
• Smarting with sorries
• Sorry
• Undergoing remorse
• Wishing it hadn't happened
• Wishing undone
• Wishing undone, as an unethical act