ruefulness
- n sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
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- The book, with all its misty ruefulness, is enormously likable.
- A ripple of laughter spreads through the room, but there's a touch of ruefulness about it because many of today's fathers find it equally hard to be fully involved with their .