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 Gerald Stanley Lee
It had been raining in the afternoon, and as I drove up the avenue the mournful dripping of the rain from the dark trees accentuated the cheerlessness of the gloom.
From Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock
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 Horatio Alger
