Murder
Murder noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.
Regrettable and murder are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Regrettable" instead an adjective "Murder".
Regrettable
Regrettable adjective - Of a kind to cause great distress.
Murder and regrettable are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Murder" instead an adjective "Regrettable".
Both words in one sentence
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Poirot has no difficulty with allowing the murderer to die of illness instead of being convicted, on the grounds that the murder had been regrettable but justified.
Source: Series / Poirot -
In Appointment with Death, the victim is an old woman so tyrannical and flat-out evil that her death is seen as just as regrettable as the victim in Murder on the Orient Express, who was a kidnapper and murderer of children.
Source: Wicked Stepmother - The regrettable murder storyline from the second season of Friday Night Lights was such a huge departure from season one's low key, realistic tone that everyone was sure it was all NBC's Executive Meddling trying to get the show's middling ratings up.
Source: Mis-blamed
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Regrettable and Murder. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/murder/regrettable
Murder & Regrettable. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/murder/regrettable>.
Regrettable or Murder. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/murder/regrettable.
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