Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses.
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.
6 By the time Jiri had finished, Edie Habib was looking very rueful .
7 The effect of his voice, in these subterranean abodes, was unspeakably rueful .
8 Bran returned to his place on the bench with a rueful smile.
9 But he's making me eat my words, said a rueful John Mulholland.
10 The possible failure to regain my animal, filled me with rueful thoughts.
11 The little children broke into a rueful murmur, and Ermengarde looked aghast.
12 In short, Twickenham is rueful ; I don't believe Westphalia looks more barren.
13 It was Mollie who spoke this time, and her tone was rueful .
14 Robert rubbed at his injured ears and gave her a rueful look.
15 He took off his glasses and wiped them with a rueful air.
16 Then he stirred and looked up at Eleanor with a rueful smile.
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