mirthful
adjective
joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry.
unmirthful
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a word derived from
mirthful.
Example Sentences
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Last month, an unmirthful man smiled mechanically for photographers, took off his hat and put it on again, glanced with interest at New Jersey's Palisades, and walked down the gangplank of the Homeric to Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
A slight laugh he gave vent to here startled him a little, it sounded so hard and so unmirthful, and so unlike, as he oddly fancied what he really thought.
From Frontier Stories by Bret Harte
His short-lived, most unmirthful mirth has died from him, he has laid a hand upon the table near him to steady himself.
From April's Lady A Novel by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
His hollow, 165 hoarse, and unmirthful laughter echoed among the pines.
From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Anton Otto Fischer
One detected, too, a grin, ugly and unmirthful, on the unprepossessing countenance of Captain Magnus.
From Spanish Doubloons by Camilla Kenyon
