comfort
verb (used with object)
to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to.
comfortlessness
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a word derived from
comfort.
Example Sentences
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The filth and comfortlessness that prevail in the houses themselves it is impossible to describe.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all; to be sick in such a place!
From Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland
So that even in the sunshine the crude comfortlessness and inferior savagery of the place only repelled her.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
At his words, the picture of the little shack—her home now—as it had looked the first time she saw it in all its comfortlessness, its untidy squalor, rose before her eyes.
From The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Vast, sheer walls, unbroken by even an attempt at ornament; row above row of windows in the mud-coloured surface, upwards, upwards, lifeless eyes, murky openings that tell of bareness, disorder, comfortlessness within.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
