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Meanings of remorsefully in English

In a rueful manner.

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        Examples for "ruefully"
        Examples for "ruefully"
        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
        1
        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
        Usage of remorsefully in English
        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
        6
        He settles down to wait, thinking remorsefully of the pickle he is in.
        The new yorker
        7
        Pityingly, remorsefully, I lingered near them all that night and the next day.
        Famous Modern Ghost Stories
        8
        It is bad enough to keep you awake, said Sadie, remorsefully.
        Katherine's Sheaves
        9
        For a moment, too disturbed to speak, he looked at her, miserably, remorsefully.
        The Red Cross Girl
        10
        Then his friend Derec came hesitantly in the door and looked at him remorsefully.
        The Pirates of Ersatz
        11
        She would sketch perhaps her home and speak remorsefully of her boldness in writing.
        Ensign Knightley, and Other Stories
        12
        Rafael remorsefully reflected that she had foreseen all that in first repelling his advances.
        The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
        13
        That had been all rapture; this-helooked at Christine remorsefully.
        The Second Honeymoon
        14
        The steer is auctioned but Jo remorsefully cries she will never learn that lesson.
        The new yorker
        15
        But the next moment he laughed, and then apologized, remorsefully.
        Ranson's Folly
        16
        All the things he might have done came to Roger, remorsefully, and too late.
        Flower of the Dusk
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