Adjective : a cheerful person. ,cheerful surroundings. ,cheerful songs. ,cheerful giving.    From Dictionary.com. 

The scene was curious, but by no means uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

Nor was he uncheerful in his cold garret and with his empty stomach, for.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

He was determined to keep Ender from learning anything, though he'd not be uncheerful about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speaker for the Dead]

"He did indeed," said the lady with an uncheerful smile, and there the subject dropped for the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

The Kirkasanters were not an uncheerful folk, on the whole, but some of their ideals looked austere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

That could be explained in part by the fact that uncheerful letters could not pass the German but could pass the British censor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference

And here's another thing that has cheered immensely in these 4 terribly uncheerful years: The Democrats held the majority for 40 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Source: McCain, GOP Significantly Expanding Advertising Map Into New States] Reference

Clyde, but he had no news to bring me until two days before my trial, when he came into my cell with a grave but not uncheerful countenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

I don't want to repeat my rather uncheerful comment on Yelli's blog from the other day Sorry, Y! but suffice to say I'm an exile of love, to use Snooker's words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Distance doesn't really make the heart grow fonder] Reference

When no longer called upon to speak or listen — either of which operations cost him an evident effort — his face would briefly subside into its former not uncheerful quietude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

The captain helped her ashore, but it was a most uncheerful outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference

Evelyn came in a few minutes later, pale and subdued, but not uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Desmond, V.C.] Reference

At first Iglesias saw without seeing, busy with his own uncheerful thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Horizon] Reference

The stores and houses were all closed, with here and there groups of uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

This uncheerful prospect did not daunt Trot, but it made Cap'n Bill quite nervous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarecrow of Oz]

The British victories have swept the clouds away and there are no uncheerful faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference

But it's that beastly twilight hour of a damp November day, and I'm in a beastly uncheerful mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Enemy] Reference

In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense and Sensibility] Reference

Mary presently came back alone, and the lessened but not uncheerful group downstairs settled down to a vigil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby] Reference

There is no reason to believe that any disadvantage accrued to Turner from his somewhat uncheerful birthplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference

"China's gayest art had dyed," do you think that self-satisfied, but still uncheerful looking face tells of happiness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales] Reference

But here his uncheerful meditations were broken in on by a voice, imperative in tone, yet perceptibly shaken by laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Far Horizon] Reference

Mrs. Noakes admitted with the grudgingness of a person of uncheerful temperament, that looks like that always would make talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shuttle] Reference

And doth it not cast a most intolerable calumny upon him, that we should serve such a master unpleasantly, and with uncheerful service?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference

The voice was not uncheerful; it had that serenity which comes of duties honestly performed and a life tolerably free from sordid anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

I know this is another beastly uncheerful letter, -- as bad as the last, and maybe worse, -- but if you knew what we've just been through!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Enemy] Reference

When no longer called upon to speak, or listen, either of which operations cost him an evident effort, his face would briefly subside into its former not uncheerful quietude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

But be sure don’t let him see any thing uncheerful in your compliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

At Time, at Tarquin, and uncheerful Night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rape of Lucrece] Reference

The major characters meet most uncheerful ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction, Long And Short, For Summertime Escapes] Reference

Yet it was not uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference

The outlook was uncheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

A not uncheerful step with time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

O.M. Have you ever seen me uncheerful, unhappy.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference