rueful
Example Sentences
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Rueful about their recent run, the Bryans engaged in plenty of soul-searching after a wrenching defeat, in which they had the momentum before a rain delay in the third set.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2016
Tops in the Rueful Britannia class was a 1965 Wolseley Hornet, which raked in a box of tea, warm beer and a can of spotted dick.
From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2016
Rueful Britons were compelled to recognize that it was "Bremen �ber dies!"
From Time Magazine Archive
One was a proud, polite horse chosen to carry Feodor Chaliapin, chivalric Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rueful was the thing he did; but a more rueful him befel.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)
Vocabulary lists containing rueful
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Tuck Everlasting
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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