ruefulness
- a word derived from rueful.
Example Sentences
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He regards his son with suspicion, defiance, anguish, ruefulness and fear.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
But the play’s mixture of ruefulness, bleakness and bittersweet domesticity never becomes gripping, and drama and momentum are in such short supply that you feel you’re living the tedium the title character has embraced.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2021
Knowing what we do about America’s capacity for forgiveness, or for willful forgetting, we can maybe allow, with some ruefulness, that the restoration of his body was more astonishing, after all.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
“They changed 95% of it,” Mr. Berney says without ruefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2018
“Don’t I know it,” he said with a kind of happy ruefulness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
