Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not merry; not disposed to mirth.
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- adjective Not
merry , the opposite of merry;sad ,gloomy .
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Examples
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The unmerry band of six had traveled all afternoon and most of the night, but had decided to break till dawn.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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No matter how despicable Pastor Jones and his band of unmerry men might be, nothing can possibly justify this brutal retaliation or the failure to speak out against it.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin: What's Worse: Burning the Koran or Killing Innocent People Not Responsible for It? Judge H. Lee Sarokin 2011
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The unmerry band of six had traveled all afternoon and most of the night, but had decided to break till dawn.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Based on the horror anthology of the same name, this Twilight Zone for viewers ages 7 and up begins with a fright-astic tale called "A Creature Was Stirring," about a little boy who finds an acid-spitting monster under the tree when all he asked for was some bonding time with his unmerry relatives.
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There are only so many variations on the themes of "I survived this illness/addiction/upbringing" before you realize the unmerry-go-round is passing the same scenery again and again, like the background in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
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As much as this is a point for Team Hillary and her unmerry band, I believe that Samantha Power will (thankfully) continue to advise Obama.
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And as they work to stem the rising tide of demonic activity, they continue to travel the country, battling the supernatural wherever they go: changelings, cursed objects, vampires, witches, malevolent spirits, even a very unmerry Anti-Claus.
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The foreign markets are down, governments are taking over banks, credit is impossible to come by, unemployment is growing, retailers are worried about a very unmerry holiday season.
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Moor is a protean figure in this novel: sometimes he's a lost soul wandering through what might be Dante's "Inferno"; sometimes he's Dorothy in a very unmerry land of Oz; sometimes he's Everyman.
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I oughta know; I stepped off an Amtrak train in the unmerry month in 1988.
Archive 2006-08-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006
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