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  • adjective comparative form of somber: more somber

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Examples

  • Yul Brynner did something similar, but somberer, with his posthumous "Don't smoke" ad.

    "I'm Art Buchwald, and I just died." Ann Althouse 2007

  • He felt happier than he had done for years scheming out this undertaking, albeit it was perhaps a larger and somberer kind of happiness than had fallen to his lot before.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • In the middle of all the blue and orange and command gold and green was a patch of color both somberer and more splendid; Ael and her son Tafv, both in the scarlet and gold-shot black of Romulan officers.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Lauzoon had the empty glory; they had the blessing of toil that brought their faculties into play, and gave them relief from somberer thoughts.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • Chatham Square, and had got into the somberer district below.

    Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

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