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lugubrious
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  • Those invited had crammed themselves into the house, deferential, lugubrious, avid with curiosity.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Within a few weeks it was lugubriously out of tune.†  (source)
    lugubriously = in an excessively sad manner
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • ROS (lugubriously): His body was still warm.†  (source)
  • Derby now came to lugubrious attention.†  (source)
  • Then he fell, and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds churned by.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Still, he hoped rather lugubriously that it would turn out all right.†  (source)
  • 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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