cheerlessness
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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
The cheerlessness of it Loftus hated, as all New Yorkers do.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus
So I went back to the cold cheerlessness of Rivermead Mansions, and slept until the following morning.
From The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux
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