mirthful
adjective
joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry.
unmirthfully
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a word derived from
mirthful.
Example Sentences
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He laughed at their effect upon him, but unmirthfully.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
Then he looked suddenly at Tom and winked unmirthfully with a kind of worried annoyance.
From Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
He remembered the warnings Bancroft had given him about Gonzalez and about the danger of pursuing Delafield, and chuckled unmirthfully.
From The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly
"All right, constable," said Sir Richard Haredale, smiling unmirthfully; "I'll move on—and move out!"
From The Sins of Séverac Bablon by Sax Rohmer
"For a man who's usually as silent as you are, don't you think you're talking a good deal, considering how sick you said I was?" asked the young woman, not unmirthfully.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
