ruefulness's Usage Examples:

Shaw's comment afterwards was famous for its ruefulness and it has often been quoted: "I puts the ball where I likes and he puts.

that charts the WASP's decline and fall since the depression, has the ruefulness of a collection of John Cheever stories.

invention: one that can combine scabrousness and lyricism, comedy and ruefulness in the same paragraph.

cherish what little is left", taking him through the logic of pathos – ruefulness, to resignation, to sympathy.

Telegraph commented that he made a touching theatrical virtue of both ruefulness and inadequacy.

Vulture noted that "Jacobson’s scratchy ruefulness is a perfect match for Bean’s mix of anti-establishment attitude and indifference".

aware of perplexing some of her viewers, and she "wrote with a note of ruefulness", that "The term 'abstract' causes many mortals to barricade the windows.

this self-introduction [title song] charmingly, translating wryness and ruefulness into a breezy soft-shoe sensibility.

Synonyms:

contrition; rue; sadness; unhappiness; remorse; sorrow; attrition; self-reproach; compunction; contriteness; regret;

Antonyms:

cheerfulness; joy; increase; accept; happiness;