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

In these chapels, which to the population here were like what public squares are to the inhabitants of a city, every effort was made to lessen the surrounding cheerlessness.

From The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by Anonymous

We hoped to find in the grounds some compensation for the cheerlessness of the interior of the castle; but here again we were doomed to disappointment.

From In Château Land by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth

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.