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More numerous are the power men who shone in unjoyful ages and in the half-light of provincial parks.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Not an easy propositionate, but not a thin or unjoyful or dullish one.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Naturally taciturn, unjoyful, and ever oppressed by that brooding consciousness of guilt hanging like a cloud over her memory, formless, vague, but never lifting, Fina's changeful temper and tumultuous vivacity were intensely wearisome to her.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

One night, nevertheless, in the splendour of one such scene, he sees himself suddenly apostrophised by a squalid unjoyful Figure, who has come in uninvited, nay despite of all lackeys; an unjoyful Figure!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

You enter a kind of ditch, called a trench; it leads on to another and another in an unjoyful maze.

From Carry On Letters in War-Time by Dawson, Coningsby