mirthlessness

Mean Things: mirthlessness.anhedonia. cyberleeches, as promised. man-eating plants. more giant arthropods.

there will always be a faster gun, but there'll never be another one like you. stillsostrange 2008

But now there was the same sort of mirthlessness that was in his own smile.

Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

But now there was the same sort of mirthlessness that was in his own smile.

Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

But now there was the same sort of mirthlessness that was in his own smile.

Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

But now there was the same sort of mirthlessness that was in his own smile.

Star Trek: A Rock and a Hard Place Peter David 1990

He laughed with a harsh mirthlessness that made her quiver.

The Shadow of the East

He was exactly as he had been; his voice had the same slow mirthlessness and it uttered the same flat definitive comments.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914 Various

He smiled with the cold mirthlessness that always reminded Humbolt of his father -- of the Lake who had been the _Constellation_'s lieutenant commander.

Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

"Yes, sir, five thousand dollars!" exclaimed Marcus, with a sudden unaccountable mirthlessness.

McTeague 1920

To the lips of a light-of-heart there was that in its quality had brought a sigh: as for Arden, when he had checked his horse he looked upon the scene with a groan, then presently for very mirthlessness, laughed.

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903