Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lugubrious manner; mournfully; sadly.

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  • adverb In a lugubrious manner.

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  • adverb in a sorrowful lugubrious manner

Etymologies

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lugubrious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I tell you, "lugubriously," the pickin's is gittin 'slim on this range! "

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • For a good laugh also check out this lugubriously serious blog called Jane Austen Today that asks, "has Quirk Classics gone too far?"

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • You probably know Thompson best for the way he perfected the art of sitting around well-appointed offices, drawling lugubriously, in the "Law And Order" series.

    WATCH: Newt Gingrich Endorsed By Fred Thompson -- The Video That Should Have Been The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • Meggie must be punished by ‘the Gods’ as the narrative hints endlessly, and lugubriously.

    Adventures for Girls « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • Her jowly oppugner, lugubriously played by Roger Allam, makes this case for the defendant's guilt – he went on the internet.

    TV review: The Jury 2011

  • For a good laugh also check out this lugubriously serious blog called Jane Austen Today that asks, "has Quirk Classics gone too far?"

    author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • He shook his head lugubriously as he broke the news.

    CHAPTER XL 2010

  • But the contours of the nudes, farm workers and seated figures with immense hands and lugubriously elongated, masklike faces, as brutalized as Vincent van Gogh's "Potato Eaters," point ahead to mature configurations.

    Irascible Still Karen Wilkin 2011

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