A joyless man. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Investors concerned by evidence of what is being called a joyless recovery. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2004] Reference
The word "joyless" only showed up once in the article. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times: Edwards Campaign "Joyless"] Reference
What kind of joyless existence must these people live?. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Movies That Got Terrible Reviews | Best Week Ever] Reference
I really couldn't be dealing with that kind of joyless pedantry. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference
And yet their dominant collective emotion sometimes seems to be a kind of joyless, anticipatory fear. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary’s Achilles’ Heel] Reference
At the same time and Election Central seized on the word "joyless" as its primary take on the article. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times: Edwards Campaign "Joyless"] Reference
Vidic has been quoted saying that life in Manchester was "joyless". From Wordnik.com. [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference
Alley, so you are come to your senses, "said he, with a kind of joyless grin. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
The business of the bath went on, but joyless now. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings] Reference
Yet the surfeit of success left Bradshaw oddly joyless. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Of A Man: Stop Pretending Nothing's Wrong] Reference
It is this that makes them cast-down, sorrowful, joyless. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
"You, of course," he answers, with a rather joyless smile. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Besides, the quest for perfection is joyless and boring. From Wordnik.com. [How Feminism Got Corrupted] Reference
Was but a poor and joyless slave, compelled to wear a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Does not life without difficulty become insipid and joyless?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Thereon Drepanum receives me in its haven and joyless border. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Gore's fastidious attention to detail made him a joyless campaigner. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference
And apparently he wasn't quite the joyless philistine often depicted. From Wordnik.com. [PERISCOPE] Reference
Faye Dunaway makes even less of an impression as Mickler's joyless wife. From Wordnik.com. [Caped Crusader] Reference
He was adept, if a bit joyless, at lobbing Ping-Pong balls into cups of beer. From Wordnik.com. [Making of a Massacre] Reference
One moment, he forces the reader on a joyless march through an arid policy debate. From Wordnik.com. [BILL'S SELF-PORTRAIT] Reference
Does Russo really think women lead lives of such joyless, unconflicted determination?. From Wordnik.com. [Is Author Richard Russo A Misogynist?] Reference
And that terrible Smiths song is banned on account of it being joyless and embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [Readers recommend songs about vegetables] Reference
The after-life in Hades was believed to be a shadowy, joyless copy of the earthly existence. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Mrs. Gilmore finally died an exclusive, matter-of-fact, joyless death, even as she had lived. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
So David's joyless, workaholic brother, Linus (Humphrey Bogart), decided to dispose of Sabrina. From Wordnik.com. [An Affair To Forget] Reference
Then they would return to the school-room, and spend, as best they might, these joyless holidays. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
Your mission is to scour joyless Neutropolis, looking for clues to help fight the dictatorial Norms?. From Wordnik.com. [Above Par] Reference
And so there is this weird way that games work on you that can become oddly and compulsively joyless. From Wordnik.com. [Video Games: The 21st Century's Fine Art Frontier] Reference
Yet doubt still hangs over the big economies like a cloud, producing an increasingly joyless recovery. From Wordnik.com. [WHERE TO FIND PROSPERITY] Reference
A gaunt Henry Bolingbroke presides over a joyless court; you can't help hoping Falstaff gets onstage fast. From Wordnik.com. [ALL THE WAR'S A STAGE] Reference
Final y of a primitive vowel, preceded by a vowel, should not be changed into i before a suffix; as, joyless. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Two-party politics seems a joyless and unresponsive industry of scripted speeches, spreadsheets and centrist calculation. From Wordnik.com. [Look Who's Running] Reference
Her campaign is a little cold, a little joyless, but what Clinton lacks in spontaneity she makes up for in sheer competence. From Wordnik.com. [No Sure Thing] Reference
If they are unwilling to pay the price, what is there left for them save the joyless sensuality and black despair of pessimism?. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
At last the monster's arm was torn off at the shoulder, and sick unto death, he fled to the fens, there to end his joyless life. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Because of this, gardening for me tends to be a joyless activity where I mutter to myself and silently whine about my own failings. From Wordnik.com. [Growing Flowers And Fathers] Reference
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