rueful in the PONS Dictionary

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However, those gasses that give credence to this scientific theory that the planet is breathing are also a rueful reminder that we are suffocating it.
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The sentiment did get a rueful laugh from the audience.
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He was in rueful mood about the nature of awards ceremonies.
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Stokes clearly doesn't as he departs with a rueful smile.
www.telegraph.co.uk
He is asked for others, but the reply is nothing more than a rueful grunt.
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He pauses for one of his characteristically rueful smiles.
www.telegraph.co.uk
The device of the audience being in on the plot, while the characters are unaware, creates much rueful humour.
www.independent.ie
The play's outrages are reduced to rueful melodrama and quiet reflection.
ww2.kqed.org
He goes on to write that this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility.
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It is not even a rueful national joke.
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