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regretfully

 adverb
     
re‧gret‧ful‧ly
1 feeling sad because you do not want to do what you are doing:
'I must go,' he said regretfully.
2 [sentence adverb] formal used to talk about a situation that you wish was different or that you are sorry about [= regrettably]:
Regretfully, we do not have time to continue this discussion now.
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