ruefully in English

adverb

mournfully, regretfully, sadly; pitiably, deplorably

Use "ruefully" in a sentence

1. Synonyms: Contritely; remorsefully; ruefully

2. He grinned at her ruefully.

3. He smiles ruefully at the irony.

4. Catch me, I thought ruefully, washing dishes.

5. 'So this is goodbye,' she said ruefully.

6. He ruefully admitted that he envied her.

7. Mans looked ruefully at his bottle of champagne.

8. Michael thought ruefully, there goes my date with Kay.

9. He listened ruefully, holding the receiver away from his ear.

10. Then, ruefully, he decided the sum was too large.

11. Perhaps, she reflected ruefully, she was just easily irritated.

12. He gazed ruefully in the mirror at his greying locks.

13. Only 5 million, we were ruefully told, were receiving treatment.

14. He rubbed the back of his neck and smiled ruefully at me.

15. Hitting gold so fast would have been too easy, he told himself ruefully.

16. She smiled at him ruefully and came into his arms for a kiss.

17. " Well, I'll be damned, " he said ruefully, putting her on the floor.

18. " I don't believe you ever intend to marry me, Charlie, " Carrie said ruefully.

19. This is one reason people talk about their television viewing so ruefully, so apologetically.

20. Still, she thought ruefully, most heroes would have feet of clay if studied closely.

21. I wanted that card to complete the set, so ruefully handed over twelve of my duplicates.

22. Synonyms for Contritely include penitently, remorsefully, repentantly, regretfully, sorrily, apologetically, chastenedly, compunctiously, ruefully and penitentially

23. Synonyms for Agonizingly include bitterly, regretfully, ruefully, painfully, sadly, sorrowfully, inconsolably, lugubriously, mournfully and plaintively

24. Have you ever thought, ruefully, that far from raising an obedient child you've become an obedient parent?

25. My command, Jon Snow reflected ruefully, as much a ruin as it is a stronghold.

26. A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot, the chairman, Sir Alan Cockshaw, admitted ruefully yesterday.

27. Old Hercule's stuff had been built to last, she reflected ruefully as she turned on the shower.

28. Ruefully, she recalled her pleasure at the way the book, after a difficult patch, had begun to develop.

29. After much anger, frustration, and pain, we may ruefully have thought, ‘If only I had waited just a little bit.’

30. LIKE THE AGING HAS-BEEN WHO ruefully looks back on his glory days in high school, many investors frequently replay previous bull markets in their minds.

31. When I met Miller in his Tokyo office, he ruefully acknowledged that he and Tsukamoto have come tantalizingly close to finding the parents of Japanese eel hatchlings.

32. Obama reacted to the defeats by ruefully observing: "Some election nights are better than others" and accepting he had taken a "shellacking" from the voters.