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Recent Examples of lugubrious Despite its lugubrious atmosphere, the characters’ problems could now be cleared up with some penicillin and, say, a book club. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 The locker room was far from lugubrious following an indicting 114-98 loss Tuesday to the weary and mediocre Miami Heat. Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025 Despite its lugubrious atmosphere, the characters’ problems could now be cleared up with some penicillin and, say, a book club. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025 Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes. The Learning Network, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lugubrious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lugubrious
Adjective
  • The work’s third movement offers an intriguing pizzicato section, as well moments of discordant — though not somber — unease.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 11 July 2025
  • Live 00:00 06:12 06:12 Officials give timeline of response efforts as floods impacted Texas 06:12 Kerrville Police Community Services Officer Chief Jonathan Lamb painted a somber picture of how the morning of July 4 unfolded as floods took over Hunt, when most residents were asleep.
    NBC News, NBC news, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Joining in the festivities is outgoing French student Chloé (Cécile Matignon, hugely appealing), ostensibly in a relationship but flirting brazenly with Nicolau, who even after a few beers is too mournful to pick up the signals.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 July 2025
  • The mournful cries of nearby Slow-Lows draw attention from other infected in the area, who plant themselves along the top of a picturesque hill waiting for the Alpha’s signal to attack.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • The reversal is notable because this traditionally bleak indicator had been trending more positively under Trump's second term—until now.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • Restaurants were closed, staff were furloughed, and the broad outlook on the hospitality industry’s future was, in a word, bleak.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • American kids also experienced an increase in early onset of menstruation, trouble sleeping, limitations in activity, physical symptoms, depressive symptoms and loneliness during the study period.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025
  • Rates of depressive symptoms, loneliness and physical complaints such as headaches and stomachaches have also worsened.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • April 23, 2025 But a papal funeral is a papal funeral, and those present for the funeral Mass on Saturday, along with millions watching online or on TV around the world, will still observe a solemn moment involving sumptuous Catholic pageantry.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Maliciously or willfully disturbing a funeral, memorial service, procession or burial ceremony. Threatening, quarreling or challenging to fight someone, or fighting.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • That this show could mark a turning point for free speech and the First Amendment is just too depressing to contemplate.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 2 July 2025
  • But already there are major depressing effects on the ports and warehousing that are important contributors to California's economy.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Raymond Cheadle, Honesty’s great-uncle, told WUSA the family, including the girl’s dad, is heartbroken.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
  • Pepe has the power to make two heartbroken Islanders immediately forget about their old connections.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 10 July 2025

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“Lugubrious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lugubrious. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.

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