funereal
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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
These, however, also feel funereal, like death masks taken after a long-suffering friend has been freed finally from corporeal struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
The shafts of light homed in on a spectral figure — a slim, dark-haired woman dressed in white, moving at a funereal pace and plaintively singing.
From New York Times • May 13, 2024
The mood was not festive, though wasn’t exactly funereal either.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023
For all their beauty there was something sombre about them, funereal; they were like the wreaths, stiff and artificial, that you see beneath glass cases in a foreign churchyard.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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