Words from Books

lugubrious

/ləˈɡ(y)o͞obrēəs/
adjective

  1. looking or sounding sad and dismal
Mornings, we walked down to the beach, a distance of a mile, or sometimes we took bicycles, big lugubrious cruiser that didn’t belong to anyone in particular, and went swimming.

– Carolyn Cooke, Amor and Psycho: Stories

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