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Gwynne regarded the thin sole of his house shoe with so rueful a countenance that the judge laughed outright.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONPale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEBy this time he was in a wholly different mood; angry with himself, and full of rueful thought about his wife.
MARRIAGE LA MODEMRS. HUMPHRY WARDAt the rueful outcry, Clifford turned, just in time to see the bobbing bundle disappear in the muddy water.
A FORTUNE HUNTER; OR, THE OLD STONE CORRALJOHN DUNLOE CARTERETIn 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.
JAFFERYWILLIAM J. LOCKEShe smiled into his eyes and made a rueful little gesture with both hands, which she allowed to fall gracefully to her sides.
THE ENVOY, HERHORACE BROWN FYFEThe man gave a sort of rueful laugh and came and delivered the pick and coolly watched the cradle.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEIsabel laughed a little to herself, in a rueful fashion, as she hurried along the road.
COUNTRY NEIGHBORSALICE BROWNDuty, as he conceived it, pointed him forward on the rueful path that he was travelling.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMary remembered this, and now casting a rueful glance around the room she said, "I wonder where I am going to wash me."
THE ENGLISH ORPHANSMARY JANE HOLMESSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 15, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO RUEFUL
- afflicted
- cast down
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- dirgeful
- dismal
- dispirited
- distressing
- dolent
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- grieving
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- pitiful
- plaintive
- rueful
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- accusable
- caught
- censurable
- censured
- chargeable
- condemned
- conscience-stricken
- contrite
- convictable
- convicted
- criminal
- culpable
- damned
- delinquent
- depraved
- doomed
- erring
- evil
- felonious
- hangdog
- in error
- in the wrong
- iniquitous
- judged
- liable
- licentious
- offending
- on one's head
- out of line
- regretful
- remorseful
- reprehensible
- responsible
- rueful
- sentenced
- sheepish
- sinful
- sorry
- wicked
- wrong
- aching
- aggrieved
- agonized
- all torn up
- battered
- bleeding
- bruised
- buffeted
- burned
- busted up
- contused
- crushed
- cut
- damaged
- disfigured
- distressed
- disturbed
- grazed
- harmed
- hit
- impaired
- in pain
- indignant
- marred
- mauled
- miffed
- mutilated
- nicked
- offended
- pained
- piqued
- put away
- resentful
- rueful
- sad
- scarred
- shook
- shot
- sore
- stricken
- struck
- suffering
- tender
- tortured
- umbrageous
- unhappy
- warped
- wounded
- afflictive
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- deplorable
- dire
- dirty
- distressing
- doleful
- dolorous
- god-awful
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- hurting
- lousy
- low
- lugubrious
- meager
- mean
- melancholy
- mournful
- pitiful
- plaintive
- poor
- regretful
- rotten
- rueful
- sad
- sorrowful
- stinking
- tragic
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unsatisfactory
- woeful
- wretched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.