Sentence examples for less joyous from inspiring English sources

Graham adopted less joyous personas.

Pam Ayres' effort is a less joyous experience.

Remembering its erection, on August 13th 1961, 50 years ago, should be a less joyous occasion.

Right now, I couldn't feel less joyous about embracing my end-of-life experience.

Then the trucker gets pulled over and harassed by some corrupt traffic cops, which is less joyous still.

Joy-riding on the beach is a lot less joyous during plover season: motorists must slow their four-wheel-drive phaetons to 10 miles an hour.

Touré said that his homecoming was less than joyous.

But many of the villagers in this deforested valley look less than joyous.

Saddest swansong: James Landale, exiting as BBC deputy pol ed after having been passed over for the top job (despite getting the only TV scoop of the 2015 election), was sent off on Thursday/Friday to the less than joyous Remain party and ended up in an otherwise empty room.

And yet this streaming album, which is equal parts gospel, pop and hip-hop, is never less than joyous.

When Doris Lessing learned she had been chosen as the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature, her response was something less than joyous.