Synonym: contrite, remorseful, ruthful. Similar words: ruefully, useful, careful, wasteful, doleful, forceful, baleful, hopeful. Meaning: ['ruːfʊl] 
adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
adj. feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. 
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1, Reckless youth makes rueful age.
2, Jenny gave a rueful smile.
3, He shook his head and gave me a rueful smile.
4, He turned away with a rueful laugh.
5, Mary Ann shot him a rueful look.
6, She managed a rueful little smile.
7, Then she pulled a rueful face.
8, Jane looked at her with a rueful smile.
9, The upholder, rueful harbinger of death,[http://sentencedict.com/rueful.html] Waits with impatience for the dying breath.
10, I shall never forget Jordi's face, his rueful smile, his fatalistic shrug as he was pushed into the car.
11, He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy.
12, Ellen gave me a rueful smile.
13, "Our marriage was a mistake," she said, looking rueful.
14, He thought of her with a rueful smile.
15, She could not help laughing at his rueful countenance.
16, He was rueful for joining the army.
17, He made a blank and rueful face when he saw Mr. Arthur seated upon a table.
18, He seemed both rueful and fatalistic about his prospective eminence.
19, The play is a rueful, wry observation about the way we are all subject to the ravages of time.
20, Hung - chien , with a rueful smile , had no choice but to take the child.
21, The good loser is recognisable as the competitor who nods with rueful admiration each time the opponent scores.
22, Celia and Brassard, who had overheard everything from the outer office, exchanged rueful glances.
23, But he only looked at her blankly, and gave no rueful half-smile in collusion.
24, Lord Mountdrago smiled, but the smile that tried to be careless was only rueful.
25, A small gas - jet furnished sufficient light for so rueful a corner.
26, Along with Strauss , Sibelius and , yes, Schoenberg, Mahler sang the last rueful songs of nineteenth - century romanticism.
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