joyless

Example Sentences

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They are the Joyless Olympics, made to be endured and survived instead of enjoyed and celebrated.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

Joyless though most of them are, they have a little of the power and glory of the first and greatest Gothic cathedral windows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joyless was the face of Aubrey Williams when he emerged.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Young himself was soon to pass into the same Valley of the Shadow, not so much of Death as of Joyless Life.

From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Let gentler fate my darling prince attend, Joyless and cruel are the warrior's spoils, Dreary the path stern Virtue's sons ascend.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George