uncheerful

So: plenty of reasons for Greeks to feel very uncheerful about the agreement with the eurozone.

“How did you find this place?” he asked, uncheerfully, when I called to book a room.

"If you go I go," grumbled the mate uncheerfully.

Not that it was melancholy or even uncheerful, but simply serious.

They beg the food and the utensils to serve it in from uncheerful givers and then dispense it cautiously and sparingly, the more sparingly the more money for the Lord.