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
Wailfully and ruefully are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wailfully" instead an adverb "Ruefully".
Nearby Words: rueful, ruefulness
Wailfully
Wailfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: the lost child wailfully kept asking for his mother
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and ruefully
- hard and wailfully
- agonizingly and ruefully
- agonizingly and wailfully
- bitterly and ruefully
- bitterly and wailfully
- painfully and ruefully
- painfully and wailfully
- sadly and ruefully
- sadly and wailfully
- woefully and ruefully
- woefully and wailfully
- dismally and ruefully
- dismally and wailfully
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