lugubrious
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- adjective Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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- While the tone of the letter was thus lugubrious, its language was offensive. — The Life of Francis Marion
- 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
- 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 âRichard III.â which he had heard read; and his favorite among them, always declaimed on the most unexpected occasions and in his loudest tone, was, â” âStand back, my Lord, and let the coffin pass!â — A Study Of Hawthorne
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- From Latin lūgubris, from lūgēre, to mourn.
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/ (lo͝o-go͞oˈbrē-əs, -gyo͞oˈ-)/
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