She greeted her guests joylessly.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : the joyless days of the war.    From Dictionary.com. 

Each store is horribly, irredeemably, joylessly functional.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Going On] Reference

The fashion industry promotes this sick vision coldly and joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Why Have We Stopped Raging Against the Sick, Sick Fashion Industry?] Reference

The poet Gur was poking his spoon joylessly in a bowl of meat salad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

This time meals were eaten quietly and joylessly, he clearly was preoccupied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beth Broderick: My Father's Daughter] Reference

Those characters include multiple Harrys as decoys, a device that ' s handled joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  ['] Reference

And, give or take a few bursts of joylessly plodding around a beach with Jemima Kahn, that's literally it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posh Hugh Grant Splits Up With Posher Jemima Woman] Reference

There's something workmanlike and contagiously weary about The Face and The Wave as they trudge joylessly along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown - review] Reference

Predictably, jackals pounced on my initial statement, joylessly failing to bask in the silliness of what happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Quigg: Contingency Plans For Revised Edition of "A Happier History of America" by Rudy Giuliani] Reference

He still treated her with respect, but they bedded joylessly now, only in hopes of engendering an heir to the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conqueror's Moon]

They are bitter narcissists, joylessly dressing up in their employer's clothes in ritualistic role-play games that have lost all meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids – review] Reference

Yet so many writers these days, it seems to me, write joylessly; they join writers groups, participate in NaNoWriMo, all with the goal of writing quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Benjamin: For the Love of Writing -- Not Publication] Reference

But all in all it was a distinctly low-key affair and nowhere near as illustrious as the premieres I've joylessly clawed my way through in previous weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Those who were left went about their work silently and joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army] Reference

Turning his head towards me Captain C-- smiled too, rather joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences] Reference

Turning his head toward me, Captain C-- -- smiled, too, rather joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Personal Record] Reference

As expected, an older guy who talked very loud and spoke rather joylessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guernica Magazine] Reference

Update: "The artistic psyche has never been more joylessly explored," writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

And now, joylessly, it appears he is leaving Florida State to save the program.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

He got it against his breast joylessly, and then bade her to try the weight of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

I, who had centred everything round one thought, must now start joylessly along new paths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Childhood and Youth] Reference

Of Course, individuals like Engineer, with his posh job, can joylessly promote such behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Dull and joylessly he did his duty, and deeper and deeper the lines became traced upon his forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dame Care] Reference

For years he's been (joylessly) predicting old media's demise unless it figures out new business models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference

Lady Agnes wandered joylessly with the girls in the Palais Royal and the Rue de Richelieu, and emerged upon the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Muse] Reference

Moments like these are the mothers in travail of a resolve joylessly conceived, undesired to clasp, Necessity's offspring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

"Poor Amy and I are a ladies 'league," the girl joylessly joked -- "as we now take in the 'Journal' regardless of expense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outcry] Reference

Thomas Aquinas stands astride the globe, his Synthetic System seamless and airless and joylessly possessing the only Truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest entries from endlesslyrocking.blog-city.com] Reference

No one even remotely involved in director Betty Thomas's joylessly wretched rodent turd can claim to hold onto a shred of such.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com] Reference

The result is employees do their work joylessly, communicating their dissatisfaction to colleagues toiling with similar feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

This first issue delivers none of those pleasures, though -- both story and art feel uninspired and painfully, joylessly mediocre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The ADD Blog at Comic Book Galaxy] Reference

She uttered it so joylessly that Duchess Susan added, with intense affectionateness, 'You're not obliged to marry him, dear Chloe.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

The poor old man, dazzled by the light and bewildered by the change, lingered joylessly and without a smile for a few weeks and died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

After all, if you can’t spend the festive period joylessly slotting pieces of cardboard together, you’re obviously some sort of moron.    From Wordnik.com.  [SLACKERJACK – Monsterstack] Reference