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 the Adriances' breakfast-room, an effort had been made to offset the outside cheerlessness by aid of lamps glowing under gold-colored shades.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

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

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