adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a lugubrious voice
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a few minutes the door opened and a young, lugubrious face looked out.
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He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.
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Henry was large and jovial and partly bald, while Jimmy was small and rather lugubrious in appearance and hailed from Glasgow.
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McNab's head was lowered and he seemed to be pondering in a lugubrious sort of way.
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People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.
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She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal.
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The Rectory drive was dank and dripping between its lugubrious laurels.
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Their host was a huge, lugubrious man, who reminded Graham of Demis Roussos.