lugubrious
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Diamond once said he wrote this lugubrious ballad to satisfy the suits at his record company, and I, for one, believe him.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025
At once lugubrious and nutty, depressing and daring, “The Attachment Diaries” unfolds, for the first hour or so, in the softest black and white.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
At a lugubrious black-tie dinner preceding the event, I sat next to a former MP who asked me two questions I had never been asked before in succession.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2022
They watched the peacock walk out of the shadow of a tree, then its lugubrious flight up to its favorite perch on the roof, where it stood and surveyed the decayed kingdom below.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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