Synonyms
Examples for "ruefully"
Examples for "ruefully"
1
Will you stop making guesses and let me talk? she added ruefully.
2
Nathan said ruefully, 'We're kind of learning our way around here, sir.'
3
Made me think, because I was like that once,' said Petronius ruefully.
4
Jacob is ruefully aware that he is way out of her league.
5
I'd thought ruefully many times, yeah, their task is to haunt me.
1
He later contritely admitted to Fox News that he'd gotten it wrong.
2
Charles answered her contritely, repressing the merry twinkle in his eye.
3
Beryl rode back to Miss Erne's in a contritely humble mood.
4
Here Mr. Redbrook stopped abruptly, and glanced contritely at his companion.
5
I think we had better go home right away, said Miss Allen contritely.
1
It was, he discovered, past two, and he remorsefully summoned a servant.
2
And I've done you out of your tea, too, he added remorsefully.
3
He bent over her upturned face very tenderly and a little remorsefully.
4
Reluctantly, remorsefully, she opened the drawer and took it out in her hands.
5
But catching the sight of the face of her aunt, she cried remorsefully:
6
He settles down to wait, thinking remorsefully of the pickle he is in.
7
Pityingly, remorsefully, I lingered near them all that night and the next day.
8
It is bad enough to keep you awake, said Sadie, remorsefully.
9
For a moment, too disturbed to speak, he looked at her, miserably, remorsefully.
10
Then his friend Derec came hesitantly in the door and looked at him remorsefully.
11
She would sketch perhaps her home and speak remorsefully of her boldness in writing.
12
Rafael remorsefully reflected that she had foreseen all that in first repelling his advances.
13
That had been all rapture; this-helooked at Christine remorsefully.
14
The steer is auctioned but Jo remorsefully cries she will never learn that lesson.
15
But the next moment he laughed, and then apologized, remorsefully.
16
All the things he might have done came to Roger, remorsefully, and too late.
