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
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
Part of the problem: the generally lugubrious choice of musical material.
From New York Times ● Jun. 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
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