uncheerful
Example Sentences
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At first Iglesias saw without seeing, busy with his own uncheerful thoughts.
From The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet
But it's that beastly twilight hour of a damp November day, and I'm in a beastly uncheerful mood.
From Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Alone in his uncheerful hotel bedchamber, his chair tilted back against the wall, he sat smoking and thinking, reviewing again and again every consideration growing out of his matrimonial entanglement.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
Ah! there, lying back once more in the easy chair, in a dress which— "China's gayest art had dyed," do you think that self-satisfied, but still uncheerful looking face tells of happiness?
From The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
Inwardly exultant, though decently uncheerful, I took passage a fortnight later in a barque trading to the Friendly and Navigators' Islands.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood
