rueful 的定义
- causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight.
- feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow, repentance, or regret: the rueful look on her face.
rueful 近义词
regretful
更多rueful例句
- Rueful laughter from both men turned to thoughtfulness in Stittsworth.
- You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant.
- A discussion of a London cheese shop sends her into paroxysms of rueful joy.
- But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show.
- “You can pick which lines can come out,” Spitzer said with a rueful smile.
- Gwynne regarded the thin sole of his house shoe with so rueful a countenance that the judge laughed outright.
- Pale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
- By this time he was in a wholly different mood; angry with himself, and full of rueful thought about his wife.
- At the rueful outcry, Clifford turned, just in time to see the bobbing bundle disappear in the muddy water.
- In order to carry out my wife's orders, I had to disentangle Susan from Liosha's embrace and pack her off rueful to the nursery.