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
Sunday morning, impelled by the expense of our large retinue and the cheerlessness of our refuge, we pushed on for the foot of Wild Rice Lake, twenty miles distant over prairies and through forests.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
He knew from personal experience the cheerlessness of the house which has but lately harboured the dead.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger
The chill and cheerlessness of it all was reaching at the hearts of the boy and girl who were at the moment of parting.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
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