cheerless

The room was small and cheerless but I needed a bed.

When had she allowed her life to become so cheerless?

It is a cheerless room, a place to eat, nothing more.

It had taken a cheerless effort of will to remain in her car.

The road will be a far more lonely and cheerless place when he is gone.

Yet was the outside not half so cheerless as the interior.

It flooded the cheerless room with a cold, hard light.

We huddled together, waiting for news in that cheerless room.

Yet the numbers, cheerless as they are, have to be looked at, even through squinted eyes.

As the cheerless shadows of the early evening began to fall the Company made ready to set out.

The three witches had never seen such a cheerless place in their lives.

I wasn't likely to get a drink in this cheerless house.

There was a cheerless air about her, something which said she seldom smiled.

They were just getting ready to go into a cheerless camp for the night, when Tom, who was a little in advance, looked ahead.

In the rest of the region, by contrast, the picture remains largely cheerless.

The room itself was a cheerless less one to return to at this inauspicious hour.

Here in Russia's most northern city, a winter's day is two hours of cheerless gray.

He looked up and gave me a cheerless smile.

Cheers rose to warm a cold and cheerless city corner.

After a few more cheerless moves, Short gave up.

Tired of answering the same questions, they will be helpful but cheerless.

The look on Bobbi's face was one of cold, cheerless calculation.

The long, cheerless walk back to the West Side seemed impossible.

I offer it as a renewal of hope after a rather grim, cheerless winter.

Airless but not cheerless, the work has an effective dark humor.