Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a joyless manner; without joy.
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- adverb In a
joyless manner.
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- adverb in a joyless manner; without joy
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Examples
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Public health officials joylessly report another first place: Obesity has replaced smoking as the leading cause of preventable death.
Carole Carson: Fitness and Obesity Trends to Watch for in 2012: It's Not a Small World After All Carole Carson 2012
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Public health officials joylessly report another first place: Obesity has replaced smoking as the leading cause of preventable death.
Carole Carson: Fitness and Obesity Trends to Watch for in 2012: It's Not a Small World After All Carole Carson 2012
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Yet all we learn of her is that she is nobly born, radiantly beautiful and joylessly promiscuous heaven forfend that even a heavenly "slut" should enjoy her urges.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Public health officials joylessly report another first place: Obesity has replaced smoking as the leading cause of preventable death.
Carole Carson: Fitness and Obesity Trends to Watch for in 2012: It's Not a Small World After All Carole Carson 2012
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Yet all we learn of her is that she is nobly born, radiantly beautiful and joylessly promiscuous heaven forfend that even a heavenly "slut" should enjoy her urges.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Yet all we learn of her is that she is nobly born, radiantly beautiful and joylessly promiscuous heaven forfend that even a heavenly "slut" should enjoy her urges.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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If we can get back to the original point, about regional stereotyping, I would suggest that the BBC's current joylessly shot and sombrely voice-overed documentary on a Kilmarnock council estate The Scheme is far more guilty of perpetrating them for their own ends than Geordie Shore, TOWIE or Made in Chelsea ever were.
Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011
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Most of the time we are watching Fassbender's sad and lost face – and his O-face, of course – as he joylessly pumps away at his squadrons of hookers and bar-room pick-ups.
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Yet all we learn of her is that she is nobly born, radiantly beautiful and joylessly promiscuous heaven forfend that even a heavenly "slut" should enjoy her urges.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Public health officials joylessly report another first place: Obesity has replaced smoking as the leading cause of preventable death.
Carole Carson: Fitness and Obesity Trends to Watch for in 2012: It's Not a Small World After All Carole Carson 2012
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