funereal

Example Sentences

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Still, more venues are restricting phone use to ensure that the atmosphere is festive, not funereal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

You can futz with the bread, you can gild the cheese, but if the core is bland or watery or vaguely funereal, the whole enterprise collapses.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

When the tornado hits Kansas, this ensemble starts spinning around sinisterly in funereal disco costumes that might have been a hit on the long-forgotten variety television program “Dance Fever.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

The mood was not festive, though wasn’t exactly funereal either.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

The music and the dancing became mournful as a succession of funereal dances conveyed the murderous Reign of Terror.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann