Usually means: Regretfully, with a hint of sadness.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruefully: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruefully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruefully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ruefully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ruefully, ruefully: Wordnik
  6. ruefully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ruefully: Wiktionary
  8. ruefully: Dictionary.com
  9. ruefully: Rhymezone
  10. ruefully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. ruefully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ruefully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. ruefully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ruefully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a rueful manner; causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.

Similar:
remorsefully, contritely, regrettingly, sorrowfully, repiningly, ruthfully, regretfully, lamentingly, lamentably, mournfully, more...

Opposite:
cheerfully, happily, pleasedly

Types:
regretfully, sadly, disappointedly, unhappily, more...

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    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     gunmetal, more...

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Similar:
remorsefully, contritely, regrettingly, sorrowfully, repiningly, ruthfully, regretfully, lamentingly, lamentably, mournfully, more...

Opposite:
cheerfully, happily, pleasedly

Types:
regretfully, sadly, disappointedly, unhappily, more...

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     gunmetal, more...



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