joyless
Example Sentences
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By the end, and by her own hand, she was reduced to being a joyless hater of holidays and avowed enemy of All Things Fun.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
That’s not to say it was an entirely joyless event.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Stobaeus offers his son a strictly pagan view of the afterlife, as a grim and joyless eternity spent underground.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
They also want to elect someone they think is a human, not a joyless bureaucrat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
He announced that the national threat level, which had been jacked up to orange around the joyless first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, was being dropped.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
