funereal
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Still, more venues are restricting phone use to ensure that the atmosphere is festive, not funereal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
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
The Mexico locker room afterward was funereal, but even that was a good sign, Lozano said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2023
Oregon State coach Jonathan Smith accepted Michigan State’s contract offer on Saturday, one day after his alma mater suffered a season-ending loss to Oregon that felt funereal on multiple levels:
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2023
For all their beauty there was something sombre about them, funereal; they were like the wreaths, stiff and artificial, that you see beneath glass cases in a foreign churchyard.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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