What is "ruefully"

Usage examples of "ruefully".

Yoshida Shigeru later ruefully explained that this had been his philosophy regarding the American reformist agenda in general.

Cyrus, and I saw Asteria ruefully sucking her finger where she had pricked it with the needle.

Ruefully he continued leafing through the pathetically exuberant pages, studying at the end a full-page portrait, bemedalled and becrossed, of King Leopold of the Belgians, a gallant son of a gallant father, who, it forecast, would never bow to the Germans.

Violet, who, having dropped onto the sofa, was occupied with ruefully chafing her injured member.

The guests at the ball kept glancing between the Sagesses and the Vallerands, until finally Lysette gave in and ruefully asked Max to take her home.

Wil Ohmsford had remarked rather ruefully that the difference between the two was that Jair was apt to do anything, while Brin was also apt to do it, but only after thinking it through first.

Nodding ruefully, I pull a piton gun from my pack and harpoon the planet.

This house had many conveniences, she thought ruefully, such as being close to Regula I, a space station that had blown up ninety years ago.

As we ruefully contemplated a supperless couch, a comely young woman, who had been looking us over from a room in the rear of the bar, came smilingly forward and volunteered to do the best she could for us.

Daydanda thought ruefully, as she issued rapid commands and reassurances, restoring order out of the sudden panic that the light had caused among the sensitive unpigmented wingless ones.

He himself, Lucky thought ruefully, would do well to hit Ceres at a mile.

Above all, he had been able to observe Le Chiffre at the tables and to note ruefully that he was a faultless and lucky gambler.

Edward, ruefully grinning, tried to inject placatory facetiae, Philip and Stephen sat white and ashamed, each on the arm of a chair in the little sitting-room.

His mind was working very clearly, with the same crystal intensity of focus as in the fight, and he grinned at it ruefully.

He would twit her with Jacobinical opinions and quote her sayings in company--sometimes jocularly, sometimes ruefully, for he himself posed as a staunch Government man.