Hypertext Webster Gateway: "joylessly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Joyless \Joy"less\, a.
Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. --
{Joy"less*ly}, adv. -- {Joy"less*ness}, n.
With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. --Dryden.
Youth and health and war are joyless to him. --Addison.
[He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and
spurns the growing grass. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
joylessly
adv : in a joyless manner; without joy; "she greeted her guests
joylessly" [ant: {gleefully}]
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