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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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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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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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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There was a long lugubrious silence.† (source)
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ROS (lugubriously): His body was still warm.† (source)
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It was a daily fiesta that lasted until dusk, when the naked women marched, singing, toward the bathrooms, asked to borrow soap, toothbrushes, scissors, cut each other's hair, dressed in borrowed clothes, painted themselves like lugubrious clowns, and went out to hunt the first prey of the night.† (source)
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Still, he hoped rather lugubriously that it would turn out all right.† (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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