(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
a lugubrious President announcing China’s most favoured nation status
The song features Cohen at his most lugubrious and opaque, which is saying a lot
Where so many people are poor and without private transport, the RER is the only way to come and go – and it has acquired a lugubrious grip over all existence
perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria
perhaps already i've said too much on this lugubrious new year's eve, the goblets and demitasse cups piled so high as to obscure the faucet which drips
As the subject had grown lugubrious it was buried in a silence of the table during which Mrs Malins could be heard saying to her neighbour in an indistinct undertone:
he Orthodox Church propagates its lugubrious and ornate moralism – against which chafe dissenting sects, minorities, sexual dissidents in the cities’ queer hinterlands, radicals.
I saw him stop in the middle of the street lugubriously lighted by its gas lamps
bloated love doll, lugubrious, and eyelash-batting
The movie is lugubrious, like a Chekhov play about comedians in Los Angeles, a Chekhov play with hundreds of dick jokes, in which Jimmy Fallon might show up in a cameo as himself
Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema, art-directed for a new era of violent self-pity, economic decline, and racial appropriation.
escaping, abandoning his companions to that lugubrious assault
One after another, the lugubrious, iron-colored German carriages moved past.
I was fascinated with the still, hushed, lugubrious, unadrenalated world of Diary
with its lugubrious pose
I always think this means drunken or something lol
Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee
Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema
the lugubrious interviewee America got to know from his films in the 1960s
Something lugubrious and ardent. He’s feeling awfully hard done by and sorry for himself