ruefully
adverb
in a mournful or doleful way.
half-ruefully
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a word derived from
ruefully.
Example Sentences
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"Don't be angry, Maya," he pleaded, half-ruefully, half-humorously.
From Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay
And here it may be well to notice how opportunely, as De Quincey half-ruefully remarked, money always fell in to Wordsworth, enabling him to pursue his poetic career without distraction.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
