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
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
One time he gave a lengthy tour to a tall, stoop-shouldered man with a lugubrious expression on his long face, whom Lawrence introduced with unusual deference as “Dr. Nicholas Baker.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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