"Your sun has failed freshman English. I'm afraid he'll have to attend summer school," Tom's teacher said with a mirthless smile.
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Mirthless
/ˈmɝθləs/
Synonyms for "mirthless" (22 found)
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2 entriesdescriptive adjectivequalitative adjective
Collocations
5 entriesmirthless expressionmirthless grinmirthless lookmirthless smilemirthless tone
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2 entriesmore mirthlessmost mirthless
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1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms: hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal...
Source: wiktionary
In life, David Lodge was surprisingly mirthless. Luckily, his wife was a hoot [title]
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