lugubrious

• Brooker's face was lugubrious, like a Methodist preacher who revelled in hell-fire predictions. —  Sharpe's Enemy
• Tully went on, the brandy already making him lugubrious: —  Working Murder
• Rail sounded equally lugubrious, though much more relaxed. —  Glory Lane
• I tried to top him in bluster, but he lowered his voice to a kind of lugubrious mutter, at the same time looking into the distance to lend a cosmic significance to his words. —  An Autobiography
• This choice of the lugubrious, however, seems to have been native to him; for almost before he could speak distinctly he is reported to have caught up certain lines of “Richard III.” which he had heard read; and his favorite among them, always declaimed on the most unexpected occasions and in his loudest tone, was, — “Stand back, my Lord, and let the coffin pass!” —  A Study Of Hawthorne

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