Sentence examples for the joyless from inspiring English sources
adjective
Without joy; unhappy, sad
- Without Joy, my life is joyless!
For recent social criticism advocating increasing appetites to achieve 'pleasure' (rather than habituating 'comfort'), see the economist Tibor Scitovsky's The Joyless Society (1992/1976), Ch.
The joyless fellow on stage wasn't anything like him.
In the joyless gloom, while the war continues.
His 1976 book, The Joyless Economy, remains a major critique of modern and especially economic values.
Obeying the joyless diktat of FIFA, the referee, of course, showed Manduca the yellow card.
It will entail the joyless task of paring back the ambitions of a once great company.
– although the joyless, leaden rock of I Can't Take It No More is no picnic either.
They made her the peer of Garbo, whose film, The Joyless Street, was directed by Pabst.
Anyone who was not the joyless Laporte was going to be given time.
So as the joyless horror continues ad nauseam, you keep wondering why he can't just stop.
It was better from United but not enough to relieve the joyless state that United have become under Van Gaal.
