cheerless
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of cheerless
Example Sentences
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But in the camp's cheerless food market we met women who pointed out that their children are guilty of nothing and pleaded for them to have a normal life.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Our beginning-of-the-year customs go hand in hand with its bleakness as we choose to make ourselves more cheerless by abstaining from things we enjoy, while pushing ourselves towards the more mundane and less exciting.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025
Cashiers at the supermarket knew them as a quiet, cheerless family that shopped several times a week.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2023
Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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