The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joyless \Joy"less\, a. Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. -- Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n.
With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat.
--Dryden.
Youth and health and war are joyless to him.
--Addison.
[He] pining for the lass,
Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
adv. In a joyless manner.
WordNet
adv. in a joyless manner; without joy; "she greeted her guests joylessly" [ant: gleefully]
Usage examples of "joylessly".
The other residents of the home are equally deracinated, abandoned by their families, living joylessly and without hope.
Abe Jones when Eugene first knew him: dreary, tortured, melancholy, dully intellectual and joylessly poetic, his spirit gloomily engulfed in a great cloud of Yiddish murk, a grey pavement cipher, an atom of the slums, a blind sea-crawl in the drowning tides of the man-swarm, and yet, pitifully, tremendously, with a million other dreary Hebrew yearners, convinced that he was the Messiah for which the earth was groaning.