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excessively mournful- It's hard to say "No" to that lugubrious hound-dog face.
lugubrious = excessively mournful
- After decades of lugubrious decline, ...
- Presently a dog set up a long, lugubrious howl just outside...Twain, Mark -- Tom Sawyer
- It is a lugubrious film punctuated with emotional carnage.
- Derby now came to lugubrious attention.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- 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.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- He shook his head lugubriously.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- In the last act it is important to remove from the picture of the seated dead any suggestion of the morbid or lugubrious.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- The drawn blinds gave a lugubrious aspect.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- The fact is too preposterous for tears, too lugubrious for laughter.Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories
- He seemed to be playing a part, mechanically, in a lugubrious comedy.James, Henry -- The American
- I had never heard so lugubrious a cry.Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- Billy sang a lugubrious song of many stanzas about a cowboy, the refrain of which was, "Bury me out on the lone prairie."London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
- Robby's face is so lugubrious that it is no wonder I have bad dreams.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
- He broke out in a merry whistle, which quickly became lugubrious and ceased.London, Jack -- Love of Life And Other Stories
- I asked, finding a lugubrious voice at length.Hornung, E. W. -- Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman
- Bid your band silence that dead march—or, by my word, they shall have sufficient cause for their lugubrious strainsHawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
- "Truly they are," murmured the count in a lugubrious tone.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- "... at Vaux," said Porthos, with a lugubrious expression.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
- "That I can see," was my lugubrious reply; "but where will this shaft end, and to what fall are we likely to be exposed?"Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
lugubrious = excessively mournful
lugubriously = in an excessively mournful manner
lugubriously = in an excessively mournful manner
lugubrious = excessively mournful