Meanings of lugubriousness in English

This, combined with an unwonted lugubriousness of visage, made Daniel's aspect somewhat comical.

Believe me, I thirst for this knack of lugubriousness.

Carl's face lost its lugubriousness in a broad grin.

The big spectacles, the half-benign, half-disapproving face, the slightly angelic but ironic mouth, the lugubriousness.

Now that there's no dirt to dish on Lane's sexuality, critics pick on his perceived lugubriousness.

Perhaps the external signs are only the last stand of a lugubriousness driven out by overwhelming forces of internal joy.

He behaves well to poor people, and the virtue of that is worth more than the lugubriousness or eloquence of many homilies.

The waiter, whose countenance had assumed a fitting lugubriousness in accordance with what he imagined were my feelings, brightened up immediately as he replied eagerly:

"Yes," answered the younger man with the proper lugubriousness of youth, "but it all comes to an end."