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
He knew from personal experience the cheerlessness of the house which has but lately harboured the dead.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
My Italian anticipations kept me up through all the cheerlessness of that time.
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
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
