mirthless
- s lacking mirth
- They even go for his latter-day curlicues which have the hard, mirthless gaiety of a Broadway shooting gallery.
- In Moscow grim Nikolai Lenin's grimmer successor, Josef Stalin, showed last week that he too can coin mirthless epigrams, as hard as the nickname, "Steel," which Lenin gave him.
- First serialized during the late '90s in the UK newspaper The Guardian, "Gemma Bovery" looks nothing like the mirthless "funnies" Americans have gotten used to in their daily papers.