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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

- death"). risum teneatis, amici? Can you help laughing, friends? An ironic or rueful commentary, appended following a fanciful or unbelievable tale. risus abundat...
- 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"...
- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- And so this breathtaking portrait of Hollywood failure is wrapped up in rueful, ruined success." Of the various films that have attracted Academy Award...
- Two, Milton speaks of "Cocytus, named of lamentation loud / Heard on the rueful stream". It is also mentioned in William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus...