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
Where cheerlessness, and hunger, and desponding toil, or hopeless apathy, brood continually.
From Humanity in the City by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
It did not look so long and narrow and the sunshine drove out the darkness and cheerlessness.
From The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics by Education, Federal Board for Vocational
In these chapels, which to the population here were like what public squares are to the inhabitants of a city, every effort was made to lessen the surrounding cheerlessness.
From The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by Anonymous
