Sentence examples for a regrettable misjudgment from inspiring English sources

The extent of the scandal is that the king supported Chamberlain – a regrettable misjudgment, but a common one at the time.

Even when he does admit in passing that there were imperial "evils," he swiftly insists that anyone who calls them "coldly calculated, deliberate crimes," rather than "excesses, blunders or regrettable misjudgments by young soldiers in the heat of action," is a "WASPophobe" riven with irrational prejudice.

At the BBC, the Newsnight row could be seen as a regrettable but editorial misjudgment such as are made in most newsrooms most weeks; but if it plays into a story about the BBC covering up scandals on its doorstep – that it's an untrustworthy organisation – then it becomes lethal.

That's a regrettable situation".

"This was a regrettable incident.

That's a regrettable motive.

The snowstorm was a regrettable incident.

That would create a regrettable equation.

It appears this was a regrettable error".

more, is marred by a regrettable error in calculation.

But there has been a regrettable downsizing of aspirations.