Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
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Examples for "rueful "
Examples for "rueful "
1 Mr Cazalet is already my right arm. He gave a rueful grin.
2 Lynx gave a rueful shrug, but brightened when he heard their news.
3 The light winked out, and Seregil gave the others a rueful look.
4 They mature through their different stages with incredible speed. She looked rueful .
5 One section of the force did regard the prospects with rueful countenances.
1 He wanted to produce in them the humble and the contrite heart.
2 Government sources suggested he had misspoken and had been contrite in private.
3 She did feel contrite ; she really hadn't meant to make him cry.
4 But a moment later the tone would be low and almost contrite .
5 Phelps was contrite following his first drunken driving arrest a decade ago.
1 "Never," answered Roxy with a ruthful smile; "but, Phyllis, in school I listen.
1 He's very remorseful ... He's just in a really bad way, she said.
2 Mr Tupou said Aholelei was regretful and remorseful about what had happened.
3 They said they were very remorseful for their actions at the airport.
4 Now I understood the remorseful strain I had detected in her speeches.
5 Speaking through an interpreter outside the Hamilton District Court, Mazerat was remorseful .
6 Whatever-itwas time to vote, and Cate couldn't get all remorseful now.
7 But there was much remorseful tenderness in the feelings that choked them.
8 And Bill dropped his remorseful eye to the order in his hand.
9 She was not actually remorseful and that made it all the worse.
10 Thus he settled it in his mind only to find himself remorseful .
11 Her lawyer, Simon Shamy said she took full responsibility and was remorseful .
12 I'm gratified by the rare compliment but suddenly remorseful about the outcome.
13 On camera, Richards seems genuinely remorseful , and resigned to never working again.
14 Sir Everard, penitent and remorseful , strove to make his peace in vain.
15 To capture and press it tenderly was but obeying a remorseful impulse.
16 Her tone was remorseful and pleading, as though she would crave forgiveness.
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