The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheerlessly
Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n.
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
--Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
Wiktionary
cheerlessly
adv. In a cheerless manner.
WordNet
cheerlessly
adv. in an unhappy manner; "he cheerlessly set out to do the task" [ant: cheerfully]
Usage examples of "cheerlessly".
The Spences noted this cheerlessly, and could not but remark a bitterness that here and there revealed itself in her short, dry letters.
It looked like a correctional facility gone bankrupt and converted into the most cheerlessly utilitarian of lodgings.