joyless

Example Sentences

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They are the Joyless Olympics, made to be endured and survived instead of enjoyed and celebrated.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

Joyless was the face of Aubrey Williams when he emerged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joyless though most of them are, they have a little of the power and glory of the first and greatest Gothic cathedral windows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joyless, vacant, barren hours prefigured themselves to me, drifting through my brain, till their vacant shapes crowded it into darkness.

From The Morgesons by Stoddard, Elizabeth

Joyless and songless, the whole landscape lay as though frozen into sculptured stone.

From Thelma by Corelli, Marie