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

If the homely virtues are not cultivated there, society will suffer; if cold and cheerlessness are characteristic of its atmosphere, there will be little warmth in the disposition of its inmates toward society.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch

The dismantled villa looked the picture of sordid cheerlessness, when stripped of all the little touches she had given it.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

The cheerlessness of it Loftus hated, as all New Yorkers do.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Saltus, Edgar