lugubriousin a sentence
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It's hard to say "No" to that lugubrious hound-dog face.lugubrious = very sad-looking
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He knew, as did everyone else, about the forthcoming marriage, but it was news to him that Anne was one of us, and he received it lugubriously. (source)lugubriously = in an excessively sad manner
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He shook his head lugubriously. (source)
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Those invited had crammed themselves into the house, deferential, lugubrious, avid with curiosity.† (source)
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Marie-Laure thinks of Hubert Bazin's stories: lugubrious monsters made of sea foam, mermaids with fishy private parts, the romance of English sieges.† (source)
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She had not been waving to Mr. Morrison, I was sure; his cynical presence didn't inspire a greeting as unselfconscious as a wave—that lugubrious mailman did not invite so much as a nod of recognition.† (source)
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Words like: viscous, impunity, paroxysm, unctuous, nefarious, onanistic, perfidious, lugubrious.† (source)
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Within a few weeks it was lugubriously out of tune.† (source)lugubriously = in an excessively sad manner
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In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, "I'll make it all jolly."† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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When the lights come up after the concert, I feel drained, lugubrious, as though my blood has been secreted out of me and replaced with tar.† (source)
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ROS (lugubriously): His body was still warm.† (source)
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Derby now came to lugubrious attention.† (source)
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Then he fell, and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds churned by.† (source)
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They had not touched the furniture; it was all as it had been when he was a child, each piece exactly where it had stood before, except uglier, and more lugubrious and rickety than he remembered.† (source)
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Still, he hoped rather lugubriously that it would turn out all right.† (source)
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On the first contact the bones of the girl seemed to become disjointed with a disorderly crunch like the sound of a box of dominoes, and her skin broke out into a pale sweat and her eyes filled with tears as her whole body exhaled a lugubrious lament and a vague smell of mud.† (source)
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