joyless
Use Joyless in a sentence
lɪs adjective
1.
without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
2.
causing no joy or pleasure.
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joyless (ˈdʒɔɪlɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| having or producing no joy or pleasure | |
| 'joylessly | |
| —adv | |
| 'joylessness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
And sometimes she sees herself participate in the joyless eating.
It often was a joyless exercise, but the reward came in the results.
Of his own free will, he turns from a full-throttle embrace of life to a joyless subsistence.
It's an entire season's worth of sitcom episodes wrapped up in one joyless theatrical film.
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