Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being joyless.
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- noun The state or condition of being
joyless ; lack ofjoy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
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Examples
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He always competed hard, with an appropriate amount of seriousness, but he did it with a certain concentration that was easily confused with joylessness or even a lack of passion.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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The last-minute redemption will reassure some young children but may not compensate for the feeling of joylessness bordering on malevolence that pervades Mr. Sendak's latest work.
Sendak's Party Animals Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Two months after leaving the paper, I'm recovering from the joylessness that's all too common in daily print journalism.
Susan Greene: Susan Greene On Leaving The Denver Post And The Future Of Colorado Journalism Susan Greene 2011
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He always competed hard, with an appropriate amount of seriousness, but he did it with a certain concentration that was easily confused with joylessness or even a lack of passion.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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Two months after leaving the paper, I'm recovering from the joylessness that's all too common in daily print journalism.
Susan Greene: Susan Greene On Leaving The Denver Post And The Future Of Colorado Journalism Susan Greene 2011
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Two months after leaving the paper, I'm recovering from the joylessness that's all too common in daily print journalism.
Susan Greene: Susan Greene On Leaving The Denver Post And The Future Of Colorado Journalism Susan Greene 2011
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Opening with a full bosomed woman, Grace Tranfield (Rachel Botchan) in a compromising position with a known philanderer Leonard Charteris (Bradford Cover) on a divan, this comedy replete with Shavian tropes on such forward thinking subjects as the sexes, the coy pleasures of friendship vs. marriage, the virtues and joylessness of vegetarianism, the dialogue could have been lifted from the pages of a lifestyle magazine.
Regina Weinreich: Titillation and Tantrums: Shaw's Philanderer at the Pearl Theater Regina Weinreich 2012
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Opening with a full bosomed woman, Grace Tranfield (Rachel Botchan) in a compromising position with a known philanderer Leonard Charteris (Bradford Cover) on a divan, this comedy replete with Shavian tropes on such forward thinking subjects as the sexes, the coy pleasures of friendship vs. marriage, the virtues and joylessness of vegetarianism, the dialogue could have been lifted from the pages of a lifestyle magazine.
Regina Weinreich: Titillation and Tantrums: Shaw's Philanderer at the Pearl Theater Regina Weinreich 2012
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In this leaden disaster film, which has all of the air-sucking joylessness of The Road but fails to create the poignant familial relationships to hold it up, the vampires are mindless blood-seeking missiles incapable of real thought or speech, frustratingly blurring the line between beasties by veering deep into zombie territory.
Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings Farihah Zaman 2010
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Like last year's debut, this employs repetition and deliberate naivety, but it's starting to sound disingenuous, perhaps because of a strong sense of joylessness and duty.
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