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lugubrious

[loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo-] / lʊˈgu bri əs, -ˈgyu- /
ADJECTIVE
dismal
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At Tudum, Ortega appeared on stage during Lady Gaga’s performance as part of a lugubrious ensemble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 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

The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

He had the lugubrious face of one who simply refuses to be consoled.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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