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Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 6, 2009lugubrious \lu-GOO-bree-us; -GYOO-\, adjective: Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner. Oh yes, he says, and his lugubrious expression suggests that the loss afflicts him still. His patriarchy often seemed lugubrious; he would often have tears in his eyes when elucidating all my failings. Previous visits hadn't yielded this art-after-death aura, which had everything to do with two installations on display, work so lugubrious it cast a pall over . . . well, just over me, but dark clouds hovered above the city, and the gloomy weather might as well have emanated from the art. Lugubrious comes from Latin lugubris, from lugere, to mourn. | |||||||||
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