"gayless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gay + -less.",
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          "word": "cheery"
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          "word": "gayful"
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          "ref": "1856, R. McCullam, Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle:",
          "text": "The brown burnt earth, / Of fruits and flowers and every verdure spoiled; / Barren and bare, a gayless, dreary waste, [...]",
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          "ref": "2011, Scars of a Calabash Misdeed",
          "text": "She ambled in, wearing a gayless smile."
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          "word": "bleak"
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          "ref": "2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture:",
          "text": "What does she say about Perez's vision of a gayless utopia? The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn?",
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          "text": "I'm a child of the early 1980s and a teenager of the 1990s, and even though TV was beginning to fill with Ellens, Wills, and Jacks, Indiana was still a gayless place.",
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        "Without gay people."
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