cheerlessness
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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
For all the brilliant blaze of sunlight that brightened the large court-yard into which we were conducted, there was about it curious coldness and cheerlessness.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
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 Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
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
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