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
The cheerlessness of it Loftus hated, as all New Yorkers do.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
These are minor matters, but yet add to the cheerlessness of the time after the strangers have gone.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
When they have been drilled to know without joy, have become the day-labourers of learning, they are given diplomas for cheerlessness, and are sent forth into the world as teachers of the young.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
