'cheerless' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something that is gloomy, depressing, or without hope or joy. For example, "The days at the orphanage were often cheerless and filled with sadness."
This is more of a problem for smaller firms than big companies, which have access to bond and equity markets, but it will act as a brake.From fool's gold to austerityThe recovery will also be cheerless.
The audience applauded and cheered from time to time, but it was cheerless.
Hiking across it, I passed bleak, scruffy slopes and a lake of cheerless grey.
From the West Midlands came news of an all-transvestite football game, with the laconic annotation: "all ended up in the canal .London displayed both patriotic zeal (flag-draped pubs in Brick Lane, big street parties in Muswell Hill) and hostility (cheerless housing estates, slogans declaring "Stuff the Jubilee").Scotland was a nation apart.
In this section A cold shower A reputation at risk The cruel sea Weak foundations Mass action Cheap and cheerless House of Cards The hunter and the hapless ReprintsNo party emerged from the 2010 election with a majority, so the largest, the Conservatives, had to form a coalition with the third-largest, the centrist Liberal Democrats.
That is because the severe recession has opened up so much spare capacity that it will take a long time to fill even if the recovery proves robust.Since that recovery will depend above all on net trade rather than consumption, it will be a cheerless one by recent standards.
It may get lucky: the upward drift of top people's income may weaken in a cheerless recovery.
The figures, which cover the three months to May 3rd, make cheerless reading: once again, the computer-maker's numbers reflect the dismal state of the market for desktops and laptops, which accounted for almost half of its revenue.
As a result, critics argue, many companies are not held to account for their activities when they should be.In this section A cold shower A reputation at risk The cruel sea Weak foundations Mass action Cheap and cheerless House of Cards The hunter and the hapless ReprintsMr Green wants to build the class online.
"Expressions of support for reform in public hospitals are cold and cheerless," the report said.
Construction would be funded partly by local authorities lifting obligations on housebuilders to provide affordable homes or to build local infrastructure alongside new houses.In this section A cold shower A reputation at risk The cruel sea Weak foundations Mass action Cheap and cheerless House of Cards The hunter and the hapless ReprintsExperts are sceptical.
