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
He knew from personal experience the cheerlessness of the house which has but lately harboured the dead.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
The cheerlessness of it Loftus hated, as all New Yorkers do.
From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar
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 Leacock, Stephen
