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Or perhaps with some of the most uncheery rock acts of the last 30 years?

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2010

Yet credit is due: no other dramatic shows on TV deal with such relentlessly uncheery subject matter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He gained his room, which was fireless, and cold and uncheery of aspect.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram

I doubt MacCailein Mor heard little of this uncheery criticism, for he was looking in a seeming blank abstraction out of the end window at the town lights increasing in number as the minutes passed.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

The intuitive answer will make the moral observer regret that man should so often place the interdict on his own happiness, and then peevishly repine at his uncheery lot.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 by Various