lugubrious

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He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

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

From the book’s grab-bag of themes and feelings, the film latched onto predestination and sorrow and got more lugubrious as it went along.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

Welcome to “The Batman,” yet another lugubrious, laboriously grim slog masquerading as a fun comic book movie.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë