Resentfully
Resentfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: she apologized later, but it was clear she did so resentfully
Ruefully and resentfully are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruefully" instead an adverb "Resentfully".
Ruefully
Ruefully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: ruefully accepted the fact that the drunk driver would never adequately pay for his crime
Resentfully and ruefully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Resentfully" instead an adverb "Ruefully".
Nearby Words: rueful, ruefulness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and resentfully
- hard and ruefully
- hardly and resentfully
- hardly and ruefully
- cruelly and resentfully
- cruelly and ruefully
- bitterly and resentfully
- bitterly and ruefully
- painfully and resentfully
- painfully and ruefully
- sadly and resentfully
- sadly and ruefully
- woefully and resentfully
- woefully and ruefully
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