Rueful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RUEFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• feeling sorrow or remorse
• expressing sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous way
• regretful or sorry
• Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
• Expressing sorrow.
• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Words related to RUEFUL

ruefully14 ruefulness13

Words that contain RUEFUL

ruefully14 ruefulness13 ruefulnesses15

How to use RUEFUL in a sentence

• All this was a great ease, but it brought one rueful consequence.
• De Meneval with a rueful face was turning over the great bundle of papers which had to be copied by morning.
• Meantime the lady rueful sat, Watching the flicker of a fire Were the Colonel played the outdoor host In brave old hall of ancient Night.
• The only apology the pitcher made was the rueful look with which he watched Sawed-Off going down to first base.
• That is what young Robin thought as he sat up and rubbed the place, looking very rueful and sad.
• Carroll was more than a little sorry for her, and also a bit rueful at his own plight.
• Then the little man appeared, a rueful figure, still with a tail of white cobweb trailing behind him.
• One of them on receiving a blow with the bottom of a quart pot, looked so ludicrously rueful, that Hogarth snatched out a pencil and sketched him as he stood.
• Nay, there is often a rueful blank expression in his visage, which might lead a stranger to anticipate nothing but blunders and dulness.
• His own looks had followed, with late and rueful repentance, the faded form which Hunsdon had just borne from the presence.
• But she felt a little rueful behind her pleasant smiling.
• They sat in a row on the stone bench within the main entrance, a rueful crew, their heads bound up with a pleasing variety of bandages.
• Simpkins the constable, with rueful countenance and faltering voice, with the intelligence that the prisoner had escaped, created a great sensation.
• And on another time, This Brook did hear that Poet read his rueful rhyme.
• With one of the most rueful countenances I ever beheld, he informed me that he must certainly die of cold.
• Quilt, who was an ardent lover of mischief, could not help laughing most heartily at the rueful appearance of these personages.
• You seem to be downcast, or at any rate, you carry the symbolical flower of sorrow in your hand, like the rueful god Hymen.
• The countenance he turned on Belfast, who had now come back, was rueful in the extreme.
• He put his walking-stick under his arm, and rubbed the knuckles of his left hand with rueful tenderness.
• But the time was not far distant, when to thee life would have undergone a rueful transformation.
• Frank had long since evacuated the premises, with a rueful look at his wife, but never daring to cast a glance at me.
• Evarin was regarding her with what, in a human, might have been rueful impatience.
• His air of offended pride was very rueful, and it did indeed seem a pathetic reversal of fortunes for the two races.
• This was the windmill, indeed, and he a poor knight of rueful countenance.
• Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one Turn in it, when he came out of the Cave, like a Hermit from his Cell, with a penitential Look, and a most rueful Countenance.
• There seems to be something in the chill breezes which scurry through the long, narrow thoroughfares productive of rueful thoughts.
• Lennox said, coming in with her hands covered with flour, and casting a rueful look at the small room kept for company, and where Wilford was to sleep.
• Poor thing! she was forced to creep close into the chimney-corner, and eyed Ben with a very rueful physiognomy.
• McCarthy, the night watchman, was seated on the platform looking down in a rueful way.
• But Jerrie held hers in her hand with a rueful look of disappointment on her face as she looked in vain for Harold or Maude to greet her.

Similar words containing RUE without suffix ful

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