joyless

Example Sentences

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They are the Joyless Olympics, made to be endured and survived instead of enjoyed and celebrated.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

Joyless though most of them are, they have a little of the power and glory of the first and greatest Gothic cathedral windows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joyless was the face of Aubrey Williams when he emerged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joyless and hopeless as he might be, I felt instinctively that he would play out his drama alone.

From California Sketches, Second Series by Fitzgerald, O. P.

Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.

From Thelma by Corelli, Marie