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How to use joyless in a sentence

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We are making every effort to try and soften the edges of these draconian rules but brick walls and head butting are pretty joyless occupations.
The pleasure of buying a house there had turned into a draining and joyless slog and we'd had enough.
Food is supposed to taste good, and health promotion should not be a series of negative messages that convey a joyless future.
It may have been a joyless campaign but the national debate has been intense.
Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface.
The middle trilogy is watchable enough rot, but the recent films are joyless, plotless screeds on macroeconomics and industrial relations.
He was 55 years old with a bad marriage and a long string of joyless affairs behind him.
York endured a joyless visit to Pontefract as they were convincingly beaten 24-0 in a Powergen Yorkshire One result.
In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless.
It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved.
And so, Tuesday nights suddenly become characterised by Class A drug abuse, lap-dancing, ram-raiding and joyless encounters with prostitutes.
Such joyless suppression crushes that most precious thing in life, the flowering of the individual human spirit.
A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.
There is a certain kind of joyless middle-aged woman, either single or unhappily married, who absolutely embodies this theory.
Even so, one must read between the lines to discover the full impact on her of the long joyless union with Thomas.
The other rooms were just too large and empty, making them both joyless and cheerless for most of the time.
Barrie himself was childless, his own joyless marriage to Mary Ansell, a beautiful actress, ending in public ignominy when his wife had an affair.
Friendly wagers aside, the press box is a joyless place to watch a game.
And yet they were depicted in newspapers and novels as joyless, sexless taskmistresses intent on imposing their will on others.
If married life is as boring and joyless as this document, I am glad I am celibate.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Both must appear sad and joyless in the extreme, and enmesh the beholder in blackest pessimism.
Of all false doctrines that of the sour-faced, joyless puritan is the falsest.
He is a spleeny, querulous, joyless fellow, of thin blood and aching liver.
These rays were joyless to the heart of the poor young girl, who wept and prayed.
The incident occurred at the most sunless and joyless stage of Marks career.
To me they are written in the dreary memory of a joyless, weary existence.
Thereon Drepanum receives me in its haven and joyless border.
Bertha had never mingled with a gay crowd in so joyless a mood.
She had a laugh like the cry of a jay, at once startling and joyless.
And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell.
It is a joyless and homophobic reading of that great jeu d'esprit.
But while Hearts were flamboyantly scoring four goals past Queen of the South at home, Rangers stumbled to a joyless 1-0 win over Cowdenbeath at Ibrox.
I have never forgotten that number, and always it comes to memory attended by gibbering obscenity, peals of joyless laughter, the clang of iron doors.
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