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
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)
Three hunted Jacobites, dragging themselves forward drearily, found the situation one of utter cheerlessness.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
A small hut now and then bursts upon the view, raising its lowly roof beneath the shelter of the mountain rock, and adds to the cheerlessness of the scene.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
