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- adverb In a
mirthless manner;sadly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How had someone with such a perceptive gift for social observation taken to producing mirthlessly indulgent parodies of his media image?
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The eyes alone laughed, mirthlessly and cold-bloodedly.
CHAPTER V 2010
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But then a couple of days later," he continues, laughing, but mirthlessly, "we were swimming in the sea and the eldest just disappeared.
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After suffering for years with Fred Armisen's mirthlessly wan version on Saturday Night Live, the premiere of Comedy Central's promising sketch-com Key & Peele peaked with Jordan Peele's spot-on Obama, spoofing his legendary emotional reserve by pairing him with an "anger translator" Keegan-Michael Key.
Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012
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That's because Jim Thompson, who also wrote "The Grifters" and "The Getaway," had no problem looking into the darkest reaches of the human soul and mirthlessly presenting what he found --- that is, violence, corruption and nihilism.
Jesse Kornbluth: 'The Killer Inside Me': Read The Book Before You See The Movie Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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Breast cancer, he claimed, spun out from the breast into the lymph nodes under the arm poetically again, he called these nodes “sentinels”, then cartwheeled mirthlessly through the blood into the liver, lungs, and bones.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Breast cancer, he claimed, spun out from the breast into the lymph nodes under the arm poetically again, he called these nodes “sentinels”, then cartwheeled mirthlessly through the blood into the liver, lungs, and bones.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The earl smiled mirthlessly as he eyed her closely.
Johanna Lindsey That Perfect Someone 2010
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That's because Jim Thompson, who also wrote "The Grifters" and "The Getaway," had no problem looking into the darkest reaches of the human soul and mirthlessly presenting what he found --- that is, violence, corruption and nihilism.
Jesse Kornbluth: 'The Killer Inside Me': Read The Book Before You See The Movie 2010
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Breast cancer, he claimed, spun out from the breast into the lymph nodes under the arm poetically again, he called these nodes “sentinels”, then cartwheeled mirthlessly through the blood into the liver, lungs, and bones.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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