joyless

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

It must not be supposed that young Willard's home was gloomy and joyless, because it was presided over by a religious woman.

Poggibonsi was revealed to her as they sang—a joyless, straggling place, full of people who pretended.

Is Baddenskey, who sits wearily at his loom down there in joyless Spitalfields, a descendant?

Perhaps envy, more than virtue, will put me upon setting up beacons for them, when I grow old and joyless.

In the palpable and griping winter, death itself seemed to wind around him its skeleton and joyless arms.