lugubriousness
- n the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
- No doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce.
- Simone Weil's whole life, writes Fiedler, was a series of acts of self-dedication that fizzled into lugubriousness.
- But the generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume.