uncheering

They are then merely burdensome and uncheering elements within their narrow social sphere.

Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

The prospect was too uncheering, even to persons in love.

Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States William Wells Brown

In it they found occasion to accentuate a grousing born of the damp, uncheering vista around them.

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

The prospect was too uncheering, even to persons in love.

Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown

All you can do is, to go a certain distance, turn round, and come back; which is a flat, uncheering, pointless sort of thing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

Grand-Aunt's house on Liberton Brae every evening after mother's death she would have seen nothing but dark glass patterned with uncheering suns of reflecting gaslight, and beyond a white roadway climbed by anonymous travellers.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Mrs. Bowse's guests were not of the class which entertains or is entertained, and the details of banquets and ball-dresses and money-spending were not uncheering material for conversation.

T. Tembarom 1913

Here it forms the most uncheering of winter bouquets, or a wreath about flowers made from the lifeless hair of some dear departed.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

Even a Christian life, all alone in the world, with nobody and for nobody, seemed desolate and uncheering.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

There was a most uncheering confusion of tongues for a few minutes among the people he had left, and then the car was near deserted; everybody went out to bring his own wits to bear upon the obstacles in the way of their progress.

Queechy 1854