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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

- with alcohol; Judy Carver notes that her father was "always very open, if rueful, about problems with drink". Golding suggested that his self-described "crisis"...
- 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...
- 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...
- was known as the Council of Four Lands. It was during this period that a rueful pasquinade claiming that Poland was a "paradise for the Jews" gave birth...
- most remembered for the last appearance of Edward G. Robinson.... In a rueful irony, his death scene, in which he is hygienically dispatched with the...
- insufferable shark who s****s to humiliate opponents for their mistakes Rueful Rabbit (RR), a small, timid man who can barely hold his cards together and...
- 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...
- death"). risum teneatis, amici? Can you help laughing, friends? An ironic or rueful commentary, appended following a fanciful or unbelievable tale. risus abundat...
- 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...
- Theatre in London Gough excelled as a comedian, playing a resigned and rueful parent in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce (1977). When the comedy transferred...