uncheerful
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Mrs. H. Why for ever picture winter like old age, torpid, tedious, and uncheerful?
From The Stranger A Drama, in Five Acts by August von Kotzebue
The captain helped her ashore, but it was a most uncheerful outlook.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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
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
She became uncheerful, and reflected that the subtle flattery in his manner was probably a mere habit; Lady Mary had intimated that he liked women and had loved several.
From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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