as in woebegone
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Recent Examples of mirthless
His mirthless laugh might have suggested Kafkaesque persecution, or Hardyesque inexorability of fate.
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Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Susan Faludi Laugh-In On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump
Nathaniel Rich
Silent Spring
Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?
—Patricia J. Williams, The New York Review of Books, 18 Oct. 2024
Cheung, who has only one friend at work (Leo Chen), fields mirthless calls from his wife and daughter in Taiwan that are always about money, nothing else.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
Not so much for Ben Affleck, a Boston fan whose train wreck of a set aimed for a cartoonish attack on fans who criticize the quarterback but felt real and mirthless.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024
In a fanciful twist, Texas and California have cast their red-blue animus aside and forged the Western Forces, a secessionist axis seeking to topple the President (the ruthless, mirthless Nick Offerman), a despot who has appointed himself to a third term.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
The conversation plays out in full and without commentary: The irony of having to humor the advances of one man to prove those of another is plain and startling, though Ito, long hardened to such cruelties, also finds dry, mirthless humor in them.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
Cline writes in a sleek, cool style that conveys both Alex’s naivete and her mirthless irony.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
Hers is a Njinga that can make an enemy’s blood run cold with a mirthless smile or disarm a would-be lover with her sensuality — or move us to tenderness with shows of vulnerability.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Susan Faludi Laugh-In On the joyful Kamala Harris and the mirthless Donald Trump
Nathaniel Rich
Silent Spring
Why aren’t the candidates talking about climate change?
—Patricia J. Williams, The New York Review of Books, 18 Oct. 2024
Cheung, who has only one friend at work (Leo Chen), fields mirthless calls from his wife and daughter in Taiwan that are always about money, nothing else.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
Not so much for Ben Affleck, a Boston fan whose train wreck of a set aimed for a cartoonish attack on fans who criticize the quarterback but felt real and mirthless.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024
In a fanciful twist, Texas and California have cast their red-blue animus aside and forged the Western Forces, a secessionist axis seeking to topple the President (the ruthless, mirthless Nick Offerman), a despot who has appointed himself to a third term.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
The conversation plays out in full and without commentary: The irony of having to humor the advances of one man to prove those of another is plain and startling, though Ito, long hardened to such cruelties, also finds dry, mirthless humor in them.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
Cline writes in a sleek, cool style that conveys both Alex’s naivete and her mirthless irony.
—Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
Hers is a Njinga that can make an enemy’s blood run cold with a mirthless smile or disarm a would-be lover with her sensuality — or move us to tenderness with shows of vulnerability.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirthless
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Sunday, the Sox, who are now an impossibly bad 31-100, locked up the sixth triple-digit-loss season in their woebegone history with a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Detroit Tigers.Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
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This is what passes for epiphany for the solemn, solitary Jane, who searches for self-knowledge in a woebegone key.Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Wedged between the cheerless skyscrapers of Third Avenue and an uncharming stretch of Second, just blocks north of the bro bars of Murray Hill, is a row of nine townhouses.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2024
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Election polls may seem cheerless, inscrutable, and wrapped in data and murky terminology.W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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However, sad to say, Gmail accounts remain a prime target for attackers of all sorts and understanding the threat is key to getting a grip on mitigating it.Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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What kids gain from taking charge of their own feelings Having strong emotional regulation skills doesn’t mean kids won’t feel sad, angry, or frustrated — that’s part of being human.Amy Morin, Contributor, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
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Thus, the adaptation is a dialogue-heavy film (and not only by comparison with its silent forebear, which indeed has dialogue, in the form of intertitles) and a sluggish, lugubrious one.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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Chu, however, takes Wicked very seriously indeed; so much so that he’s stretched out the musical’s 90-minute first act into a lugubrious two hours and 40 minutes, mostly by keeping the pacing slow and solemn.Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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Labuschagne cut a rather morose figure in the first Bazball- inspired Ashes encounter in June last year.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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That said, this encounter between a morose Jamie and his sister’s housemaid, Mary McNab, is a meaningful one and bears including.Amy Wilkinson, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2024
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The book initially caught my attention because of the stark contrast between its strikingly lurid title and its subdued, melancholic cover art.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
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So far, even The Rock is a fan of the hilariously somber and melancholic ode to having a bad day.Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 4 Oct. 2024
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The melancholy voiceover from Elsa Dutton (Isabel May) from 1883 is a nice touch, too, a monologue about the suffering people go through to maintain their control and exploitation of land.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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Jim Jarmusch’s deeply romantic, deeply melancholy Only Lovers Left Alive stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a vampiric couple who are currently living on different continents, because what’s a little bit of distance when time doesn’t have meaning.James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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Yet people remain dejected about the economy, according to the University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment.Josh Boak, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
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Loneliness is on the rise in the American workforce and may be a major reason so many people feel dejected and uninspired at their desks.Kells McPhillips, Fortune Well, 16 Oct. 2023
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“Mirthless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirthless. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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