cheerless
Example Sentences
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Typically, filing an extension isn’t a matter of putting off a cheerless chore.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
This cheerless club was grouchily owned, poorly assembled, haphazardly managed, chronically undermanned, and, worst of all, dull.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
But in the camp's cheerless food market we met women who pointed out that their children are guilty of nothing and pleaded for them to have a normal life.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
The cheerless rollout of GPT-5 could bring the day of reckoning closer.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
One wet afternoon the following November, a Greyhound bus deposited Perry in Worcester, a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up-and-down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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