Lugubrious \Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. lygro`s sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne. -- {Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness}, n.
They were ethnic Germans whose families had lived in Romania for centuries. I ate in a place they recommended, offered with a lugubrious chuckle - the Vlad Dracul.
Her compatriots John Daniecki (Zampa) and Bradley Williams (Alphonse) wield nicely contrasted high tenors Jutta Winkler is a fine, lugubrious mezzo, and her excellent would-be and ex-husbands are Antoine Normand and the chunky Valentin Jar.
It's sad that these turn out to be the liveliest moments in this truly lugubrious piece of theater.
Moore himself is an unnecessary American import; the British are quite capable of providing pseudo-profound whimsy (especially on radio where Ray Gosling's lugubrious drone or John Walters' witless bellow trigger a Pavlovian lunge to the off-switch).
The off-screen announcer intones, accompanied by lugubrious music, that Mr. Dukakis's "revolving-door prison policy gave weekend furloughs to first-degree murderers not eligible for parole.
On a dank, lugubrious day in that September of 1933, Szilard went for a walk.