uncheerful

Surprisingly, having thought this, Jim found himself feeling not uncheerful about the whole matter.

He was determined to keep Ender from learning anything, though he'd not be uncheerful about it.

It was the only possible cheering aspect to that most uncheerful circumstance.

Strange let out a short burst of uncheerful laughter.

The British victories have swept the clouds away and there are no uncheerful faces.

Clare takes in the untouched food, my uncheerful demeanor.

But the long-suffering England supporters – well, we need caveats, reasons to be uncheerful.

The Kirkasanters were not an uncheerful folk, on the whole, but some of their ideals looked austere.

Clever, well-made and brightly colored, they offer cheerful protest in an uncheerful time.

In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.

The footman gave a short, uncheerful laugh.

The rain fell steadily and the bluish light from the baking powder can was cold and uncheerful.

O.M. Have you ever seen me uncheerful, unhappy.

"Superclimbers are, on the whole, uncheerful about hiking, impatient with the weather, insensitive to the subtleties of landscape."

This uncheerful prospect did not daunt Trot, but it made Cap'n Bill quite nervous.

Nailles felt uncheerful and tried the naive expedient of bolstering his spirits by assessing his good fortune.

Bent on inspiring him with enthusiasm equal to her own, she declined to dampen what sparks he had caught by anything so uncheerful as a cold meal.

Emaciated appearance of the anchoret, his uncheerful destiny and his father's sorrow arouses sympathy of Arabs passing through the desert.

When no longer called upon to speak, or listen, either of which operations cost him an evident effort, his face would briefly subside into its former not uncheerful quietude.

Uncheerful interior, and an air of many people having recently passed through; the floors were like the insides of old suitcases, with forgotten small things in the corners.

It soon became apparent, however, that he was untrustworthy, disloyal, unhelpful, unfriendly, discourteous, mean, disobedient, uncheerful, unthrifty, cowardly, dirty, and irreverent.

Then, seeing them all having had a drink and being cheerful and happy on an uncheerful errand, he thought it would be pompous and priggish not to take it.

In my cottage, among a pile of pamphlets I found this rather uncheerful one from the Kauai Ocean Rescue Council: "The coastline surrounding Kauai ... can be dangerous and deadly.

Edward made no answer; but when she had turned away her head, gave her a look so serious, so earnest, so uncheerful, as seemed to say, that he might hereafter wish the distance between the parsonage and the mansion-house much greater.

From Nine Inch Nails to LCD Soundsystem, it's not hard to hear the influence of Nitzer Ebb and the other EBM pioneers, but few groups ever made dance music as uncheerful as this stuff.