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At precisely this point last season, after the fifth game, Michigan not only stood 2-3 overall and 0-3 against power-conference teams, it swam in the mirthlessness of hard moral waters.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2015

He smiled with the cold mirthlessness that always reminded Humbolt of his father—of the Lake who had been the Constellation's lieutenant commander.

From Space Prison by Godwin, Tom

The rider grinned with grim mirthlessness, edging Purgatory around so that the two men, their backs toward 10 him, were not more than twenty or thirty feet away and entirely exposed to his view.

From 'Drag' Harlan by Seltzer, Charles Alden

And the mirthlessness of it—it struck the Abb� John cold.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He laughed with a harsh mirthlessness that made her quiver.

From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)