cheerlessly
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
The boy is not described cheerlessly; Winslow doesn’t write in that register.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2019
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.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2016
“This is not,” he said cheerlessly, “the way you want to start a doubleheader.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2015
Then all would go quiet and we’d return cheerlessly to our books.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
