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
To add to our unpleasant position, and, at the same time, to heighten the cheerlessness of the scene 143around us, the rain began to fall violently.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
Instead of an age of joy and of elastic step, we are pointed to an iron rule of repression and cheerlessness.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
It had been raining in the afternoon, and as I drove up the avenue the mournful dripping of the rain from the dark trees accentuated the cheerlessness of the gloom.
From Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Leacock, Stephen
