Definitions
feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Word origin
From Middle English ruful, rewful. By surface analysis, rue + -ful.
Used in a sentence
“"I like the young, andro look, but I've dated across the board—butches, femmes, trannies—and that really bothers Clara. All her girlfriends in the past have been pretty much straight." Kim offers a rueful little laugh.”
“Merely, he received it with the rueful indulgence that he would show towards Tom when he came through with one of his solutions for ending world poverty or the arms race.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Full of regret”6 letters
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