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Definition of Cheerlessly
1. Adverb. In an unhappy manner. "He cheerlessly set out to do the task"
Definition of Cheerlessly
1. Adverb. In a cheerless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cheerlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheerlessly
Literary usage of Cheerlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mexico as it was and as it is by Brantz Mayer (1847)
"Cold, gray, cheerlessly, the day broke; and as cold and cheerlessly did we assemble
in the kitchen to take our chocolate. ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
""Very likely," said he cheerlessly. "You did not know the measure you were going
to mete me, and therefore did not know the measure that would be returned ..."
3. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"The loneliness of his situation, the night, the uncertainty cloaking the object
of his coming, all affected him cheerlessly. With feelings sinking lower and ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"... was to be dug out of the mountain, and their task taking the nature of devotion,
the partners went about it gravely but not. cheerlessly. ..."
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