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lugubrious
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synonyms: dolorous, funereal ???
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Definition:glum; gloomy
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"What are you doing there?" he said to the tippler, [...].
"I am drinking," replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.43 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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Sometimes I sing to myself, in my head; something lugubrious, mournful, presbyterian
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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Miranda Richardson: You've got Nursie who's sort of practically hysterical. And them I'm sort of like this little firework or something [...] and then Melchett is you know this wonderful lugubrious long streak of piss next to me. [laughs, pauses] no, Percy is the long streak of piss really.
BBC. Blackadder, Remastered, The Ultimate Edition, Disc 6: Miranda Richardson interview
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a cheerful whistling of "The Wearing of the Green." It is a lugubrious song as a rule, but, as rendered by Officer Keating returning home with theatre tickets, it had all the joyousness of a march-tune.
P.G. Wodehouse. Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories
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His class had sailor suits, but they walked about, bald-headed and lugubrious, in these well-meant garments of joy, and there was a look of instability even in the eyes of the three members who were ardent Corpos (being local Corpo commissioners).
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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Then he fell, and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds churned by.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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