lugubrious

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

At once lugubrious and nutty, depressing and daring, “The Attachment Diaries” unfolds, for the first hour or so, in the softest black and white.

From New York Times

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

The result isn’t lugubrious on the album, and it isn’t in performance, either.

From New York Times

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