cheerlessness
Example Sentences
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The bright and blue-skied backdrop is utterly at odds with the cheerlessness deliciously conjured by Tolkien.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2013
That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home.
From Time Magazine Archive
My Italian anticipations kept me up through all the cheerlessness of that time.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
In the Adriances' breakfast-room, an effort had been made to offset the outside cheerlessness by aid of lamps glowing under gold-colored shades.
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
Sunday morning, impelled by the expense of our large retinue and the cheerlessness of our refuge, we pushed on for the foot of Wild Rice Lake, twenty miles distant over prairies and through forests.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
