LekhoriLekhoriCausing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
Merely, he received it with the rueful indulgence that he would show towards Tom when he came through with one of his solutions for ending world poverty or the arms race.
Bad; woeful; deplorable.
From Middle English ruful, rewful. By surface analysis, rue + -ful.
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