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ruefulness
Variant of rueful
adjective
- causing sorrow or pity; lamentable
- feeling or showing sorrow or pity; mournful
- feeling or showing regret, esp. in an abashed way
Related Forms:
- ruefully adverb
- ruefulness noun
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