rueful

How To Use rueful In A Sentence

• He has a habit, he admits ruefully, of crocking himself.
• Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth. Try Anything Twice
• A small gas - jet furnished sufficient light for so rueful a corner.
• Her big brown eyes were looking into mine with apology, her lips were outlining a somewhat rueful and shy half-smile. A Glimpse of Love
• And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
• I told her about my coffee date with my neighbour last week, and we analysed with our usual ruefulness the mixture of mellowness and awkwardness that arose.
• Just rueful reflection on the one that got away. Times, Sunday Times
• A small, weary, rueful smile. Times, Sunday Times
• Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.
• Those who have crossed him describe the experience ruefully.