Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a joyless manner;
without joy;
- Example: "she greeted her guests joylessly"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Joyless \Joy"less\, a.
Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. --
Joy"less*ly, adv. -- Joy"less*ness, n.
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With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. --Dryden.
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Youth and health and war are joyless to him. --Addison.
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[He] pining for the lass,
Is joyless of the grove, and spurns the growing grass.
--Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
joylessly
adv 1: in a joyless manner; without joy; "she greeted her guests
joylessly" [ant: gleefully, joyfully, joyously]