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

This late snow is trying: in its season, it is beautiful; but out of season, it breeds a cheerlessness that emphasises one’s loneliness.

From How to Cook Husbands by Worthington, Elizabeth Strong

But this damp cheerlessness has its advantages, for incessant humidity sheds perpetual verdure over the coast-districts, where the thermometer rarely falls as low as zero Fahr.

From From Paris to New York by Land by De Windt, Harry

Three hunted Jacobites, dragging themselves forward drearily, found the situation one of utter cheerlessness.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart