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
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 Lee, Gerald Stanley
The cheerlessness of it Loftus hated, as all New Yorkers do.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar
But this damp cheerlessness has its advantages, for incessant humidity sheds perpetual verdure over the coast-districts, where the thermometer rarely falls as low as zero Fahr.
From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry
