lugubrious

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  1. 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 “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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  1. From Latin lūgubris, from lūgēre, to mourn.

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/ (lo͝o-go͞oˈbrē-əs, -gyo͞oˈ-)/
ahd pronounces "lugubrious"
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