funereal
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You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Al-Hijazi joined her relatives in the square, beating her chest to the rhythm of a funereal dirge, tears streaming down her cheek.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025
The mood was not festive, though wasn’t exactly funereal either.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023
Little by little the funereal splendor of the ancient and icy mansion was being transformed into the splendor of the House of Buendía.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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