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rueful
adjective as in regretful
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Good actors “act the way people used to act,” he says with a rueful nostalgia at odds with his youth.
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The remark carries a delicate wisp of rueful irony.
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“Thank God it could never happen here,” Johnson says with a rueful laugh.
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But, he added, the trip also contained an important—albeit rueful—lesson for him.
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While he enjoys the craftmanship, he admits with a rueful smile that he has still not learned to play the piano himself.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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