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

He received me with unbounded kindness;—welcomed me to his bachelor home;—apologized for its cold cheerlessness, and ordered me to consider himself and his “casa” entirely at my disposal as long as I chose to remain.

From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz

And it seemed to her that they alone could be counted happy who knew how to lighten a little the cheerlessness and gloom.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule

There was a general air of cheerlessness and discomfort, but at any rate it was larger than the stateroom on the River Belle.

From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Alger, Horatio