żałowałem po angielsku:

It feels horrible to be pitied.

Some pitied them.

An interesting record is still preserved of the inhuman cruelties which were inflicted on this admirable young woman in the secret of the prison house where no eye pitied her and where no friendly hand composed her aching limbs.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

She regretted that she had not followed his advice.

He regretted borrowing the book from her.

I regretted having wasted a great deal of time.

She bitterly regretted having said something that displeased her mother-in-law.

He said he regretted the decision.

He regretted his misdeeds.

He regretted that he had succeeded to the farm.

Teresa regretted her errors.

People regretted his sudden death deeply.

It is to be regretted that comparatively little is known of the phenomenon of fatigue in the central nervous system.

've never regretted the decision I made a few years ago to live without a car.

The farmer regretted having wasted some wheat.

Not a day passed by but he regretted what he had done.

I thoroughly regretted staying up so late, come morning.

She regretted deeply when she looked back on her life.