cheerlessly

Bearded, a little wild-looking, he cheerlessly walked onstage, barely if at all acknowledged the audience, sat down on the ordinary wooden chair he preferred to a posh piano bench.

Brady, his expression a mixture of irritation and exasperation, sat on the bench cheerlessly shaking his head side to side.

The boy is not described cheerlessly; Winslow doesn’t write in that register.

Then all would go quiet and we’d return cheerlessly to our books.

She reddens with embarrassment as the woman at the counter sloshes tea cheerlessly into our polystyrene cups, and tells us her mother adores the place because it reminds her of her childhood.