lugubrious
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Diamond once said he wrote this lugubrious ballad to satisfy the suits at his record company, and I, for one, believe him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
The mayor, 43, recalled visiting the pyramid as a schoolboy soon after it opened in 1988 as a lugubrious memorial to Mr. Hoxha.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
I never heard Patti LuPone perform as the original Norma Desmond in “Sunset Boulevard,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lugubrious noir-sical, based on Billy Wilder’s storied 1950 film.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
Words like: viscous, impunity, paroxysm, unctuous, nefarious, onanistic, perfidious, lugubrious.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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