All 5 Uses of
lugubrious
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- A lugubrious bay-window to the right of the porch.†
Chpt 3
- In hallway and front parlor she was conscious of dinginess and lugubriousness and airlessness, but she insisted, "I'll make it all jolly."†
Chpt 3 *
- Carol kissed her cheek, and frisked into the lugubrious sitting-room.†
Chpt 11
- It was only from duty that Carol dragged him and herself out of the warm hotel, into a stinking trolley, up the brownstone steps of the converted residence which lugubriously housed the dramatic school.†
Chpt 17lugubriously = in an excessively sad manner
- She alternately detested herself for not appreciating the kindly women, and detested them for their advice: lugubrious hints as to how much she would suffer in labor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions about the things she must eat and read and look at in prenatal care for the baby's soul, and always a pest of simpering baby-talk.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
appearing very sad