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

If you did cheat, well, now you know true joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Der Hasselhoff Über Alles | EW.com] Reference

Sadly, the joylessness spills over into the production itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids – review] Reference

She radiates wounded joylessness and her voice makes animals miscarry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Kelly: Laura Ingraham's New Book Could Be Better] Reference

My mother, I believe, used to attribute in part to Fanny's early training her early joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

Yet Mr. McHale's sneering, like Bill Maher's, often reveals the joylessness of a shriveled soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to School Daze] Reference

Two months after leaving the paper, I'm recovering from the joylessness that's all too common in daily print journalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Greene: Susan Greene On Leaving The Denver Post And The Future Of Colorado Journalism] Reference

They had started filming with a childlike enthusiasm and were ending it with something like the joylessness of Hollywood journeymen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raiders of the Lost Backyard] Reference

My biggest problem with the show is the joylessness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCook Daily Gazette Headlines] Reference

The awful thing about these diets is the joylessness of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The awful thing about these diets is the joylessness of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

She has put an end to loneliness, to ignorance, to joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invisible Links] Reference

How long I shall endure this terrible joylessness I cannot tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]

I can measure my hearts resting place by looking at my joy or joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [GospelDrivenLife] Reference

Another factor in the joylessness of the classroom could be behavioral issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwize] Reference

But Toyota has a deliberate joylessness that explains a lot about its present ills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

If ever the concept of joylessness could be encapsulated in a single night, that was it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference

Through analysed heaven and over analysed fields it trails its joylessness around the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

They look like little isles of glare and showing off, and human joylessness, dotting the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

NEW DELHI: There is an unusual joylessness in city markets despite Diwali being just 13 days away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest hot news: Humsurfer] Reference

They stood fixed, their baffled hearts looking out of their eyes with a joylessness pitiful to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference

It's an efficient approach to dressing, but the joylessness almost makes it worth checking luggage.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

If it doesn't ... then the joylessness you have seen on the court so far is what the Knicks will be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines] Reference

Younger brothers who perceive self-righteousness or joylessness in their elders head toward mockery.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORLD Magazine | Community] Reference

Here in England I have come face to face with destitution; with hunger, labour, sweat, and barren joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wings of Icarus]

To be sure, it's an efficient approach to dressing, but the joylessness almost makes it worth checking luggage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

It's the emotional isolation and joylessness of his home life that eventually drive him to seek refuge in her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

Sometimes it is mere passive joylessness and dreariness. discouragement, dejection, lack of taste and zest and spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference

It's got the existential angst, it's got the brooding and joylessness - and it's also got (worst of all) the shaky-cam.    From Wordnik.com.  [SteveSilver.net] Reference

But at 2 1/2 hours "Biutiful" the title refers to a misspelling by Uxbal's daughter is a wearying slog through joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

But at 2 1/2 hours “Biutiful” the title refers to a misspelling by Uxbal's daughter is a wearying slog through joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

One hour of pure happiness she had indeed enjoyed, but how many days, months, years of joylessness and suffering lay behind her!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Likewise, while my joylessness about Griffin's injury runs even deeper, I'm again pleased as pie that the quarterback's coach will suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burnt Orange Nation] Reference

It raises the joylessness within a context.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times: Edwards Campaign "Joyless"] Reference

One man's joylessness is another man's noir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday at the (virtual) garage sale | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

In contrast, there is joylessness in Mr. Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Summer of Discontent] Reference

They were twenty-two years of joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis XIV. Makers of History Series] Reference

What I object to is the joylessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

A joylessness pitiful to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference