ruefully

How To Use ruefully In A Sentence

• He has a habit, he admits ruefully, of crocking himself.
• Gluttony, Orson Welles once said ruefully, is not a secret vice and unhappily the solution to weight loss is also blindingly obvious - whatever you eat, eat less.
• Those who have crossed him describe the experience ruefully.
• My command, Jon Snow reflected ruefully, as much a ruin as it is a stronghold.
• When we last heard from them, they were waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth.
• I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully. The Little Minister
• Brothers have been the ruin of Welsh princedoms through all ages," Cadfael observed ruefully. His Disposition
• Heins,38 Roald commented ruefully in response, deciding wisely that to be placatory was the most sensible course of action. Storyteller
• In his most famous stage work, he took a ruefully affectionate voyage around his father.
• Well, there was no denying that, Cory thought ruefully, assimilating the pale blonde hair, artfully coiffed, the im maculate maquillage, the close fitting dove-coloured trouser suit that showed off her mother's slim, toned figure to the best advantage, and the fur jacket draped casually round her shoulders. Rome's Revenge