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UKrueful
/ɹˈuːfəl/
/ˈɹufəɫ/
Examples
1. Reckless youth makes rueful age.
2. That's super rueful, man.
3. Three days later, he dictated his own rueful account of the coup and his concerns for the future.
4. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
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