ruefulness
- a word derived from rueful.
Example Sentences
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The resigned version takes that and adds a smile — one that manages, through the tears, to communicate ruefulness, cynicism, contempt and the sheer relief of finally giving up.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2021
“They changed 95% of it,” Mr. Berney says without ruefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2018
But in keeping with another gay literary tradition, there is an abiding sorrow, a ruefulness, underneath the histrionics.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2017
So that’s a writer who I look back on with some ruefulness.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2015
“Don’t I know it,” he said with a kind of happy ruefulness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
