lugubrious
/ləˈɡ(y)o͞obrēəs/
adjective
- 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