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Significats de ruefully en anglès

In a rueful manner.

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Examples for "contritely"
Examples for "contritely"
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He later contritely admitted to Fox News that he'd gotten it wrong.
Ebony
2
Charles answered her contritely, repressing the merry twinkle in his eye.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
3
Beryl rode back to Miss Erne's in a contritely humble mood.
Red-Robin
4
Here Mr. Redbrook stopped abruptly, and glanced contritely at his companion.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
5
I think we had better go home right away, said Miss Allen contritely.
The Flying U's Last Stand
1
It was, he discovered, past two, and he remorsefully summoned a servant.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
2
And I've done you out of your tea, too, he added remorsefully.
The Vision of Desire
3
He bent over her upturned face very tenderly and a little remorsefully.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
4
Reluctantly, remorsefully, she opened the drawer and took it out in her hands.
What's Bred in the Bone
5
But catching the sight of the face of her aunt, she cried remorsefully:
The Choir Invisible
Ús de ruefully en anglès
1
Will you stop making guesses and let me talk? she added ruefully.
Shadow zone
2
Nathan said ruefully, 'We're kind of learning our way around here, sir.'
The Long War
3
Made me think, because I was like that once,' said Petronius ruefully.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
4
Jacob is ruefully aware that he is way out of her league.
Night of knives
5
I'd thought ruefully many times, yeah, their task is to haunt me.
Priest
6
She drew the pot from the stove and ruefully carried it outside.
Joyce of the North Woods
7
He viewed the halfburnt perfecto ruefully and filliped it through the window.
The Lure of the Mask
8
The other, detecting the amused gleam in her eyes, laughed rather ruefully.
The Vision of Desire
9
Dorn smiled ruefully, the faint mist of a sigh in his thought.
Erik Dorn
10
But it was only a very short time, laughed James Scott ruefully.
The Irish Times
11
Bart Stirling stood ruefully regarding the ruins of the burned express shed.
Bart Stirling's Road to Success; Or, The Young Express Agent
12
She drew a package from the locker and looked at it ruefully.
K
13
I haven't worked so hard for a long time. She smiled ruefully.
Report for Murder
14
I've done enough of that, the seven-times race winner told reporters ruefully.
Reuters
15
The farmer, still looking back over his shoulder, smiled a bit ruefully.
The talisman
16
Not that he had been that difficult to distract, Jack admitted ruefully.
Burning up
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