lugubrious

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At Tudum, Ortega appeared on stage during Lady Gaga’s performance as part of a lugubrious ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

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

At a lugubrious black-tie dinner preceding the event, I sat next to a former MP who asked me two questions I had never been asked before in succession.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2022

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë