adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cheerless winter sky
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Though brightly lit, the room was still somehow cheerless .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds far from their nests whirred noisily in the sky, a cheerless sound that Jinju found particularly unsettling.
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Golding's office was grey and cheerless , with the disorientating feature of being substantially higher than it was wide.
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Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow, cheerless stairs she'd last climbed before her interview.
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In these cheerless circumstances Henry fell ill and was unable to attend the peace talks in January 1189.
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One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes - modest, mostly celibate, mostly cheerless homes.
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Other establishments followed their example, with the result that Jerusalem is a less cheerless city than it used to be.
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They could light no fire, and Ratagan prophesied gloomily that their camp that night would be cheerless .