Cheerlessly [adverb]

The Tyro resumed his purposeless promenade, meditating cheerlessly upon buried hopes.

The wild flowers were gone, and the bents bowed themselves cheerlessly.

"It's late, and neither you nor I are going to meet Hutton to-night," I said rather cheerlessly.

I worked cheerlessly at this second box, as I worked without hope.

Below, the field of battle stretched far out, cheerlessly grey.

Their travelling companions wrote cheerlessly of his want of strength, and of the suffering the long journey caused him.

He flung one arm toward the vast night, beyond the panes where the mist and storm were beating cheerlessly.

Since there could be no talk of lighting a fire, Brian's men huddled together in the hollow, and ate and drank cheerlessly.

Gray tones predominate everywhere, contrasting cheerlessly with the brilliance of the preceding day.

That vast icicle, glittering so cheerlessly in the sunshine, must be the spire of the meeting-house, incrusted with frozen sleet.