joylessly
- adverb
- /ˈdʒɔɪləsli/
:
sin alegría
- Manuel shrugged, and after an awkward pause, he and Rosa scribbled out their addresses, but joylessly now, like traffic cops writing out tickets.
There's the invalid who just eats joylessly, like they're just eating to satisfy their nutritional needs.
- There's the invalid who just eats joylessly, like they're just eating to satisfy their nutritional needs.
Examples
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While Lindsey daydreamed and schemed, Della joylessly polished their mother's silver and ironed the Christmas linen, thinking to herself, what else?
Fiction book (1997) -
There's the invalid who just eats joylessly, like they're just eating to satisfy their nutritional needs.
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At any rate, I did it, finally, as one does the things expected by one’s parents, joylessly and probably even a little worse than I was capable of—though, I thought, tearing the final version off my pad and laying it on the mantel next to the thing itself for the Balkers to find when they returned home, reasonably appropriate to the subject.
Fiction book (1994) -
While Lindsey daydreamed and schemed, Della joylessly polished their mother's silver and ironed the Christmas linen, thinking to herself, what else?
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He completed the task joylessly, feeling no sense of satisfaction or pride in his work.
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She smiled joylessly at the news, knowing that it would change nothing about her situation.
Synonyms
15
1.3
In a sad or regretful way
1
7.8
In a way that shows no real joy or amusement
1
6.7
In a way that looks serious and not happy
In a way that shows you are not happy
In a sad, tired way with little energy
Antonyms
How Joyful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Joylessly comes from three simple parts: joy meaning 'happiness', -less meaning 'without', and -ly meaning 'in a way'. So joylessly means doing something 'without joy', when someone does it with no happiness.