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Example sentences for "mirthless"

Lexicographically close words:
mirrour; mirth; mirthe; mirthful; mirthfulness; mirthlessly; mirum; miry; mis; misa
  1. Mrs. Lloyd and the school-master stared at him, and Lloyd laughed his low, almost mirthless laugh.

  2. I have no doubt SHE thought so," said Mrs. Randolph, with a mirthless smile.

  3. Perhaps you yourself----" She interrupted him with a little mirthless laugh.

  4. He pulled himself up sharply, and concluded with a little mirthless laugh, as though he were ashamed of his outburst.

  5. The other answered with a short, mirthless laugh.

  6. The sudden uncontrolled rage and now the equally uncontrolled and mirthless laughter but emphasized the facial attributes of idiocy.

  7. The only reply he received was a high-pitched, mirthless laugh, and then the two passed through the doorway at the far end of the corridor and he was alone with the lions.

  8. The man who had called them stepped back, his teeth bared in a mirthless grin.

  9. Now that laager was over she had grown very tragic about the eyes again, and her mirthless laugh with its defiant note began to be frequently heard.

  10. Then her pretty mirthless laugh rang out.

  11. I'm surprised Flixman don't help you out a bit," Elkan suggested by way of changing the subject, and Kapfer emitted a mirthless laugh.

  12. For a brief interval Glaubmann nodded his head slowly, and then he burst into a mirthless laugh.

  13. The alien gave another of those mirthless peals of bull's laughter.

  14. And, thought Pink, listening to the mirthless laugh while a chill sought out his belly, the monster's words did not sound remotely like a bluff.

  15. He set his teeth and laughed--the mirthless laugh which had startled Harris.

  16. McKeith ceased from his mirthless laughing and his sarcastic bluff.

  17. If I could tell you that I could tell you who killed him," answered Kirby with a grim, mirthless smile.

  18. It faded away instantly, leaving his face as mirthless and forbidding as before.

  19. The sound of the mirthless laughter, accompanied by no change in the expression of his face, was painful to Edme's ears.

  20. And we will all end like a fairy story," she declares, trying to laugh, but it is such a poor, mirthless sound.

  21. Yes," Violet answers, in a strange, mirthless tone, while there is a smile on her dry lips.

  22. Rance regarded her coldly; at last he gave vent to a mirthless laugh, the nasty laugh of a man whose vanity is hurt.

  23. The man with the scar laughed again, the same unpleasant, mirthless laugh, and thrusting his hand into his trouser pocket drew it out again full of silver coins, amongst which one or two gold pieces glittered.

  24. Suddenly she broke into another laugh--a chuckling, mirthless laugh such as might come from the lips of the aged and senile.

  25. Then she looked up, her lips twitched nervously, and she laughed a little hard mirthless laugh.

  26. I laughed the bitter, mirthless laugh that had broken from me at dinner.

  27. He laughed an unmusical and mirthless laugh.

  28. Then he laughed his short, mirthless little laugh.

  29. When would the hoarse, mirthless laugh rise to the lips, that awful laugh that proclaims madness?

  30. Chauvelin himself brought me the news," he replied with a quick, mirthless laugh, wholly unlike his usual light-hearted gaiety.

  31. Abe covered his embarrassment with a mirthless laugh.

  32. Abe burst into a mirthless laugh and handed Morris the paper.

  33. He laughed himself, but in a strangely mirthless fashion, and, afraid to trust himself, went up on deck and brooded savagely apart.

  34. But, Lorelei--" He set the glass down with a mirthless laugh.

  35. Her answer was a short, mirthless laugh that made him glance at her curiously.

  36. Merkle showed his teeth in a mirthless smile.

  37. An hour passed, then another; a thousand apprehensions crowded in upon her, and she finally found herself walking the floor, but pulled herself together with a mirthless laugh.

  38. His laugh was as mirthless as the cackle of a guinea hen.

  39. And a little the worse for wear," he pursued, with his mirthless croak of a laugh.

  40. He croaked out his mirthless ghost of a laugh.

  41. Swansdown is as bad a man as I know, and that," with a mirthless laugh, "is saying a great deal.

  42. Lady Swansdown breaks into a low but mirthless laugh.

  43. There was a dry and mirthless laugh, showing teeth, white or discoloured, in haggard and bristly faces.

  44. Ho-Pin, his face a smiling, mirthless mask, bent over the bed.

  45. The day had passed uneventfully, and once, meeting Ho-Pin, he had found himself greeted with the same mirthless smile but with no menace.

  46. This is your wroom," said the Chinaman, revealing his yellow teeth in a mirthless smile.

  47. His yellow face was set in the same mirthless smile, and his eyebrows were raised interrogatively.

  48. Ho-Pin, dressed in a perfectly fitting morning coat and its usual accompaniments, received him with a mirthless smile.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mirthless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cheerless; discontented; gloomy; grim; joyless; miserable; sad; solemn; sorry; unhappy; unsmiling; wretched