ruefulness
Example Sentences
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The resigned version takes that and adds a smile — one that manages, through the tears, to communicate ruefulness, cynicism, contempt and the sheer relief of finally giving up.
From New York Times • May 26, 2021
Schumer is pregnant with their first child, and also pregnant with an indistinct ruefulness.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019
“They changed 95% of it,” Mr. Berney says without ruefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2018
But in keeping with another gay literary tradition, there is an abiding sorrow, a ruefulness, underneath the histrionics.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2017
Constance lowered her hands and looked at Reynie with a mixture of ruefulness and irritation.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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