Sentence example with the word 'lugubrious'

lugubrious

aggrieved, bleak, depressant, dispiriting, dour, glum, grieved, joyless, mournful, plangent, saturnine, sorrowful, tearful

Definition adj. excessively mournful

Last update: July 3, 2015


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This lugubrious work of art was set up in white marble after his death in St Paul's cathedral, where it may still be seen.   [adjective]

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Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of slang.   [adjective]

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But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, alas.   [adjective]

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In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on they are sinister.   [adjective]

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Through these windows there was formerly visible a lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La Force.   [adjective]

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In the midst of this silence, a cracked voice launched this lugubrious sarcasm from the corridor: "If there's any wood to be split, I'm there."'   [adjective]

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