How To Use Cheerlessness In A Sentence

No doubt they are meant to represent popular culture, but they are characteristic of the cheerlessness and sententiousness of municipal Labourism. The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Not yet pleased with their friend's overall level of cheerlessness, the two continued.
Rain-soaked colors convey the soggy melancholy of the Pacific Northwest as distinctly as the thin, smeared palette in "Quiet City" reflected the dim electric cheerlessness of New York subways and diners at night. Mumblecore Realism in the Age of Technology
I, for one, found no joy in the work, colored as it was by his cheerlessness and dispassionate industry. Artichoke
Unlike in Congressional corridors and across the civilian landscape of the country, there seems far more support than outrage, more cheer than cheerlessness, and a hope that maybe this will do it. Think Progress » Official U.S. Military Dictionary Includes ‘Escalation,’ Not ‘Surge’

It echoed the pervasive cheerlessness of the late 1980s.
She could see the lush green lawn, and a tall willow tree at one corner, but the gray sky and drizzling rain added the cheerlessness in her mood.
It was a strange combination of weather and location - something as pretty as snow, falling on the sleaze and cheerlessness of Kings Cross.
Much fiction that looks backward upon Jewish life in Eastern Europe is fatally infected with nostalgia and cheerlessness. Archive 2008-11-01
It's a joy to come in from litter-strewn streets and graffitti and the general cheerlessness of much of today's London, and find a school buzzing with a sense of purpose and small children. Archive 2008-02-01
For all its cheerlessness, the novel is anything but grittily realistic. Mercy!