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Definition of Rueful

Rueful
Rueful Rue"ful, a. 1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. ``Rueful faces.' --Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. --Sir W. Scott. -- Rue"ful*ly, adv. -- Rue"ful*ness, n.

Meaning of Rueful from wikipedia

- to ****." In terms of his lapsed Catholicism, he said that he "came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you're a Catholic you're always a Catholic...
- workplace. "Actresses have the power," Alec Metro, one of the men in line, ruefully noticed of the X-rated industry. A former firefighter who claimed to have...
- were also known as the Desert Storm innings. Following the series, Warne ruefully joked that he was having nightmares about his Indian nemesis. Tendulkar's...
- of the limit of 120, are eligible to enter the conclave. (Canon lawyers ruefully joke that nobody violates canon law like a pope.) As a political matter...
- baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan seeing the talented...
- upon hearing on his deathbed that his wife had given birth to a daughter, ruefully exclaimed, "It cam wi' a l**** and it will gang wi' a l****!" His House of...
- Joe Morgenstern thought the role was portra**** with "great subtlety and rueful charm". Rolling Stone said Garfield delivered "a vulnerability that raises...
- Retrieved January 9, 2018. Maslin, Janet (July 31, 1992). "Gas Food Lodging; Rueful Women, Rootless Men In a Dreary Western Town". New York Times. Retrieved...
- "my right well-beloved Valentine". Saint Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600–1601): "To-morrow is Saint...
- Some later rejoined only to separate again. In what some interpret as rueful self-reproach, some Presbyterians refer to the divided Presbyterian churches...