unjolly

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Etymology

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un- +‎ jolly

Adjective

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unjolly (comparative more unjolly, superlative most unjolly)

  1. Not jolly; glum.
    • 2008 April 10, Brooks Barnes, “What’s Big and Green, and Desperate to Be a Hit All Over?”, in New York Times[1]:
      The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero.