mirthless

• “Fenn laughed what novelists are fond of calling a mirthless laugh.”

  The Head of Kay's

• “Frank Rich of the New York Times called the comedian's performance "mirthless”

  The Huffington Post: Jerry Weissman: Obama and Comedy

• “It was not boisterous; indeed, it was consciously refined, -- mirthless, meaningless.”

  Youth and the Bright Medusa

• “Often, during the last few days, he had told himself, with a kind of mirthless chuckle, that _he_ was not going to be”

  From out the Vasty Deep

• “(Christian Slater, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall), but this time around the script and animation have resulted in a "mirthless," "underimagined" and "strenuously unfunny" movie, according to Variety.”

  Taipei Times

• “With all the clouds on the horizon, I’m guessing things are kind of mirthless at the old West Wing.”

  Think Progress » 29%

• “Snettishane met the suggestion with a mirthless face, behind the mask of which his soul grinned wide.”

  THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT

• “There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness — a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx,”

  The Trail of Meat

• “She gives the clerk a nod and a mirthless smile and finally makes her way toward the anniversary cards.”

  Fictionaut: Blank Inside

• “Ad homs, linked to hackneyed cliches, would be comical were it not for the mirthless minds which produce them.”

  Berlinski stirring the pot

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