What's the difference between birthless and mirthless?
Birthless
Definition:
(a.) Of mean extraction.
Example Sentences:
Mirthless
Definition:
(a.) Without mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) How had someone with such a perceptive gift for social observation taken to producing mirthlessly indulgent parodies of his media image?
(2) There is, as everyone who meets him seems to note, something ineffably sad about his eyes, even when he laughs, which he does in a gruff, mirthless shout.
(3) He was where the crisps are.” She gives a mirthless chuckle at the ridiculousness of what she has just said.Crisps are an unbefitting memorial.
(4) When I ask Peter Buckingham, its head of distribution and exhibition, what morale is like, he lets loose a mirthless roar of laughter.
(5) Prime minister’s questions is about watching shouted wordplay that worked better on the page, then forcing out a mirthless laugh for the team.
(6) I think there are probably three young American psychos who raised a mirthless chuckle (psychos, after all, never experience true mirth) at this spectacle, and the other 100,000 viewers just pretended to laugh, since no one wants to be the po-faced person who doesn't get the joke, especially not when they're 15.