ruesome
English
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editruesome (comparative more ruesome, superlative most ruesome)
- rueful
- to be regretted; unfortunate
- 1969, Val Björnson, The History of Minnesota - Volume 1:
- In his message to the Legislature in 1874, Governor Austin made the ruesome statement that "our railroads have been almost wholly built by foreign capital!"