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
Occasional pedestrians walked noiselessly over the damp ground, while the dismal howling of a dog added to the cheerlessness of the scene.
From Jack 1877 by Mary Neal Sherwood
Instead of an age of joy and of elastic step, we are pointed to an iron rule of repression and cheerlessness.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
He denied the charge, however, and tried to comfort Mrs. Darling, who never for one moment forgot the little empty beds and the silence and cheerlessness of the nursery.
From The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie by Daniel Stephen O'Connor
