Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a funereal manner; mournfully; dismally.

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  • adverb In a funereal manner

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Examples

  • Cars moved funereally up the cul-de-sac, turning into driveways, into garage doors opening like mouths.

    Snow Kathy Fish 2010

  • It's a match made in Hades, and the result is an engrossing, funereally chilly detective story that polishes over some of the novel's more lurid excesses.

    This week's new film, DVD & Blu-ray 2011

  • The saddest music I ever heard was at the Chicago City Council meeting after JFK was killed, the little pep band from the giant Andy Frain Ushering company (closely tied to the Daley machine) in the their shabby blue and gold uniforms playing a funereally slow and solemn "Happy Days Are Here Again".

    Discourse.net: My Ringtone Search 2008

  • Reflected back and pale, the lights from resuscitation, were glowing funereally.

    ALTERNATIVE MEMORY 2007

  • He was surveying the airless parlor rather heavily, and his curt manner was not pleasing to the head of the house of Zapp, who remarked, funereally:

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • And as he went on talking to me of the past, no doubt to show he had not lost his memory, he evoked it funereally, yet without sadness.

    Time Regained 2003

  • A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • One of them was still comatose, stretched out on the floor with his hands folded funereally over his chest.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • One of them was still comatose, stretched out on the floor with his hands folded funereally over his chest.

    Cyberbooks Bova, Ben, 1932- 1989

  • Here it dragged funereally, and there must have been far more seconds to the minute here than anywhere else, for the hands seemed not to move at all on the face of the black marble clock standing under its glass case on the mantelpiece.

    Storm in the Channel Simenon, Georges 1977

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