He has a lugubrious baritone voice that renders his wonderful lyrics as wistful or deadpan hilarious as appropriate. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
He's the best reason to watch this moody but lugubrious series. From Wordnik.com. [Matt's TV Week in Review] Reference
They saw the lights of evening, and heard lugubrious songs coming toward them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He heaved a great sigh, and said in lugubrious tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century] Reference
A certain lugubrious yarn, "My Graves," was my masterpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career] Reference
"Who will point out to Kakutani that she's overused 'lugubrious'?". From Wordnik.com. [Lugubrious and Repetitive] Reference
In some of the tributes I've found on the web, the word "lugubrious" kept popping up: "excessively mournful". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-19] Reference
You click on the word "lugubrious" and it gives you a dictionary definition, or the word "Taj Mahal" and it shows you a jpg picture. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Kakutani also describes those "lugubrious" McCarthy passages as "reminiscent of the most pretentious sections of earlier McCarthy novels.". From Wordnik.com. [Lugubrious and Repetitive] Reference
And hardly a day of the next autumn and winter passed but I was drawn back to the ruin by a kind of lugubrious magnetism. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
"Oh, Mara! you take such 'lugubrious' views, as I heard some one say. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Trembled] Reference
She's become lugubrious and she's only twenty-two. From Wordnik.com. [Cure] Reference
What Julie sees in the lugubrious Everett is a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Your Mother Hates Me! But It's OK Because I Hate Your Mother.] Reference
In a happily lugubrious blink, it was the curtain call. From Wordnik.com. [An 'Extra Man' Sneaks Into a Broadway Show] Reference
Ramos wailed out the last syllable with lugubrious emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
For example, here is a sailor depicted with a most lugubrious and. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of "John Brown's Body,". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
There was a lugubrious attempt at a smile as she turned her eyes toward him. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
"'Caze yo' said to be the cause of it," he expounded with lugubrious enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Otherwise he was still the same large hulk with much the same lugubrious humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
Horse-faced, with a lugubrious, bumpkinish smile that almost had a whimsical appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
I saw him off from Southampton; at the moment of parting he emitted lugubrious howls. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
There was something new in his face, a look half lugubrious, semi-humorous, apologetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
The sight of the dying extended upon bloody mattresses was still more lugubrious to see. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To those who accused him of being lugubrious company, one only has to say the word "Barbara.". From Wordnik.com. [Conrad Black Gets Out Of Jail] Reference
Once more the melancholy chronicler of the ill-fated Petrel resumed his lugubrious narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
Numerous archers, armed with long pikes, formed an appropriate frame for this lugubrious picture. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The lugubrious booming of cannons came rolling over the meanderings of the Seine from the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Impressed by the lugubrious scene, Aguinaldo yielded, and the next day peace negotiations were opened. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
A general protestation rose from the whole table at this verse, which was roared out in a lugubrious voice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
When the saw started on its second journey through the log, Julius observed, in a lugubrious tone, and with. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
"Well -- go on," said the girl, mocking the lugubrious tone of her cousin -- "what are you sighing again for?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
When we brought Casey home from the pound 11 years ago, he looked so woebegone that we learned the word lugubrious. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Orlins: Is my Dog Bored? Worrywart Wonders] Reference
True, the air has cleared, but a lugubrious cloud has settled over theDupontPlaza, where helicopters still hover. From Wordnik.com. [Bomba] Reference
'Marjorie was in that bundle,' began Lessingham, in the most lugubrious of tones, and with the most woe-begone of faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
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