rueful Definition

contrite, penitent, repentant, sorry, remorseful, sad, wistful, wry, melancholy, sardonic, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, sorrowful, poignant, morose, melancholic, plaintive, elegiac, deadpan, sheepish, reproachful, sarcastic, sullen, sombre, shamefaced, dolorous, forlorn, quizzical, scornful, gleeful, droll, mordant, blithe, waspish, glib, insouciant, lachrymose, sly, affectless, jaunty, bathetic, trenchant, laconic, mirthful, trembly, poetic, bemused, unsentimental, epicedian, sidelong, maudlin, schoolmasterly, leaden, dour, fatalistic, genial, pithy, jocular, jokey, portentous, sardonian, sprightly, guileless, splenetic, donnish, phlegmatic, shavian, hangdog, plangent, quavery, ruminative, epicedial, dostoevskian, mawkish, amiable, artless, tragicomic, overfamiliar, hardbitten, flippant, overdetermined, beguiling, perceptive, orotund, smug, rebarbative, introspective, unsubtle, witty, grumbly, stoical, smirky, diffident, haughty, rhapsodic, revelatory, baleful, sarky, larky,