joylessly

Example Sentences

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He added: "This could have been fun, but there is something so arbitrary and CGI-bound and jeopardy-free about it, as the film joylessly chops in bits of Alien, The Swarm, Bourne and 007."

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2022

Do you also feel like you can't recall the time your workday wasn't bisected with a joylessly consumed sad desk salad or a hastily gobbled granola bar in the car?

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2022

In HDTV, he looked hot off the PGA assembly line: white guy, zero body fat, joylessly perfect swing and total blindness to a world beyond 18 holes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2020

Hopefully then we'll get, dare I think it — working class housing for all those poor souls who will joylessly toil in the cubicles of these random giants.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019

I plodded joylessly on to the top of the mountain.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson