Sample Sentences forlugubrious (editor-reviewed)
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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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Derby now came to lugubrious attention.† (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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Sometimes I sing to myself, in my head; something lugubrious, mournful, presbyterian: Amazing grace, bow sweet the sound Could save a wretch like me, Wbo once was lost, but now am found, Was bound, but now am free.† (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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Then he fell, and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds churned by.† (source)
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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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As I sit here and breathe, I never thought the good God would let me live to see someone walk into the middle of a revolution, pull a lugubrious face, and say, 'What's the matter?'† (source)
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Within a few weeks it was lugubriously out of tune.† (source)
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Occasionally he burst out with "Peg in a Lowbacked Car" and other Irish ditties or the more lugubrious lament for Robert Emmet, "She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps."† (source)
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ROS (lugubriously): His body was still warm.† (source)
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It isn't your kind of party at all; you ought not to be here; you ought to go away, you know, to the Old Hundredth or some lugubrious dance in Belgrave Square.† (source)
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Still, he hoped rather lugubriously that it would turn out all right.† (source)
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Presently a dog set up a long, lugubrious howl just outside—within ten feet of them.† (source)
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