joyless
He joylessly takes piano lessons in memory of his musician father.
We laughed joylessly as we reminisced.
Everyone was joylessly drunk.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
Examples of joylessly
joylessly
It is in such an atmosphere that the narrator himself eats,
joylessly, while dealing with business in town.
His much agitated life passed
joylessly away in a perpetual inward contradition.
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