gladless
English
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editgladless (comparative more gladless, superlative most gladless)
- joyless
- 1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118:
- […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.
- 1974, Casimir A. Kucharek, To Settle Your Conscience, page 112:
- For others it has turned the joy and love of praising God into a gladless fulfillment of “their obligation.”