uncheerful
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But here his uncheerful meditations were broken in on by a voice, imperative in tone, yet perceptibly shaken by laughter.
From The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet
The scene was curious, but by no means uncheerful.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various
Mrs. Noakes admitted with the grudgingness of a person of uncheerful temperament, that looks like that always would make talk.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I asked him news of Clyde, but he had no news to bring me until two days before my trial, when he came into my cell with a grave but not uncheerful countenance.
From The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) by David Christie Murray
Tea-and-sugar borrowing friends have told them jocularly, or with threats, of a good time coming when things will go hard with the uncheerful giver.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling
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