Definitionadj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Last update: August 6, 2015
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She had a rueful smile on her face. [adjective]
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Lord Glenallan, though he would rather have recurred to the subject of his own uncertainties, was compelled to make a sign of rueful civility and acquiescence. [adjective]
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Bumble rose with a very rueful countenance: wondering much what something desperate might be. [adjective]
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Old Milnwood cast a rueful look upon his adviser, and moved off, like a piece of Dutch clockwork, to set at liberty his imprisoned angels in this dire emergency. [adjective]
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'I don't know; I really don't know,' said Giles, with a rueful countenance. [adjective]
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The old gentleman looked almost as rueful as Oliver when the key grated in the lock. [adjective]
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