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
If the homely virtues are not cultivated there, society will suffer; if cold and cheerlessness are characteristic of its atmosphere, there will be little warmth in the disposition of its inmates toward society.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe
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
The dismantled villa looked the picture of sordid cheerlessness, when stripped of all the little touches she had given it.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
