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What (who) is rueful - definition
BRITISH CONTRACT BRIDGE WRITER AND PLAYER
Hideous Hog; Rueful Rabbit; Papa the Greek; Karapet (bridge player); Secretary Bird (bridge player); Colin the Corgi; Oscar the Owl; Peregrine the Penguin; Walter the Walrus; Molly the Mule; Timothy the Toucan; Charlie the Chimp; Mollo, Victor
Rueful
·adj Expressing sorrow.
II. Rueful ·adj Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
rueful
a.
1.
Doleful, mournful, woful, sorrowful, lamentable.
2.
Melancholy, sad, sorrowful, piteous, pitiful, grievous, lugubrious, dismal.
rueful
¦ adjective expressing regret, especially in a wry or humorous way.
Derivatives
ruefully adverb
ruefulness noun
Wikipedia
Victor Mollo
Victor Mollo (17 September 1909 – 24 September 1987) was a British contract bridge player, journalist and author. He is most famous for his "Menagerie" series of bridge books, depicting vivid caricatures of players with animal names and mannerisms through a series of exciting and entertaining deals—bridge fables of a sort.
Examples of use of rueful
1. Sorry.) The statement was measured, rueful, freighted with anxiety.
2. "So we‘ll just hang around, and see what happens," says Weizmann with a rueful grin.
3. It is rueful, insistent on "choice" but regretful about abortion in general.
4. I‘m trying." With a rueful smile, Safin acknowledged that he still hates grass.
5. "We should have taken Obama out earlier," a rueful campaign adviser said last week.