Lugubrious

Not even Chris Hitchens, a man who makes a neat living completing advanced Highlights for Children exercises like the following: "Denounce a like-minded colleague, using the words 'Lugubrious' and 'Semienvious.'"

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

It's...uh...an intentional reference to Dali's Lugubrious Game.

Mariah Carey: Who Care-y? Cosmo7 2009

Your blog is hilarious and I have placed a link to it on my blog, Lugubrious Drollery.

Some Cakes Need No Commentary Jen 2008

“Lugubrious, lugubrious!” expostulated the company with one voice.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

"Lugubrious, lugubrious!" expostulated the company with one voice.

Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Lugubrious indeed was the aspect of the forecastle.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

Lugubrious memories crowd round this massive tolbooth -- of which the only traces of the past are some vaulted lock-up or cells beneath the rooms of the Literary and Historical Society, one of which, provided with

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

Lugubrious might be a word invented especially for Stringer, who had run Manchester for 12 years before becoming an MP in 1997.

The Register Team Register 2010

Lugubrious pitch-shifted drums lumber across "Souverian"; the canter and shuffle of "Not a Robot, but a Ghost" ultimately careens into a spooky, swirling meltdown of queasy violin and bowed bass.

Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles 2009

Lugubrious: (n.) very sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems ridiculous.

Blogtimore, Hon 2008