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unmirthful

adjective
un·mirthful | \ ¦ən+ \

Definition of unmirthful 

: not mirthful : serious, humorless glanced around a tableful of sober, unmirthful faces —Caroline Ticknor

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First Known Use of unmirthful

1782, in the meaning defined above

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