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

One detected, too, a grin, ugly and unmirthful, on the unprepossessing countenance of Captain Magnus.

From Spanish Doubloons by Kenyon, Camilla

The woman burst into a great laugh, a hard, unmusical, but not unmirthful laugh.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

"I qualify," he replied shortly, with a short, unmirthful laugh.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan

His hollow, 165 hoarse, and unmirthful laughter echoed among the pines.

From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto