joyless

The quintessentially American lesson he learns is never to be joyless.

The traffic was as light as if it were some joyless holiday.

The man was like a dark cloud—rather like having a joyless loan officer run the country.

Only that strange bird perched, joyless and alone, over the fire, on the pole from which the kettle hung.

As this joyless impossibility flitted across my mind, I rounded a bleak sand-dune.

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy.

This made the fourth, and the wife of only six months' standing, had a heavy and joyless heart.

The seeming loveless weather that hung over the earth and filled the air, was in joyless harmony with his feelings.