cheer
noun
a shout of encouragement, approval, congratulation, etc..
uncheering
-
a word derived from
cheer.
Example Sentences
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In it they found occasion to accentuate a grousing born of the damp, uncheering vista around them.
From Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry by Blicq, A. Stanley
All you can do is, to go a certain distance, turn round, and come back; which is a flat, uncheering, pointless sort of thing.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
They are then merely burdensome and uncheering elements within their narrow social sphere.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
The world little knew the drudgery to which these unfortunate followers of the Ex-Emperor were thus exposed, and they must all have rejoiced at any termination of a toil so remorseless and so uncheering.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Not a human face or habitation presented itself, nor any relief from silence, except the uncheering note of the screech owl.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.
