mirthful
adjective
joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry.
unmirthfully
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a word derived from
mirthful.
Example Sentences
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At arm's length he held the picture for Cochran to see, and laughed bitterly and unmirthfully as he had heard leading men laugh in problem plays.
From The Lost Road by Richard Harding Davis
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
"Ain't ye got no jedgmint," she temporized, laughing unmirthfully, "axin' sech a question ez that under that onlucky comet!"
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
He laughed at their effect upon him, but unmirthfully.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
They all laughed, not unmirthfully, and yet not happily.
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer
