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 ā 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
There was a general air of cheerlessness and discomfort, but at any rate it was larger than the stateroom on the River Belle.
From The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains by Horatio Alger
Instead of an age of joy and of elastic step, we are pointed to an iron rule of repression and cheerlessness.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Harry De Windt
