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 Translation for 'lugubrious' from English to Russian
ADJ   lugubrious | more lugubrious | most lugubrious
скорбный {adj}lugubrious
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Translation for 'lugubrious' from English to Russian

lugubrious
скорбный {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Writing for Pitchfork Media, Alexander Lloyd Linhardt stated "the piece itself is thrillingly diverse, suddenly going from luminous to lugubrious and from classical to chaotic.
  • The Church of St. Francis (...) is located in Évora, Portugal. It is best known for its lugubrious Chapel of the Bones. The Church was classified as National Monument in 1910.
  • One of the stooges of television comedy, Todd was best known for his lugubrious expression and talent for slapstick, and was known to fellow comedians by the nickname 'Silly Todd'.
  • I feel the lugubrious ascent of disgrace.
  • Brian May described this original version as "quite lugubrious and heavy".

  • The term in fact came from the figural sense of "black", that is ghastly, lugubrious or dreadful.
  • He is described as having a wedge-shaped head and a voice "as strange and deep as a lugubrious ocean".
  • At the opening of each State of Origin match (and the Grand Finals) Roy and HG traditionally drown out the obligatory rendition of the Australian national anthem—typically performed at the actual event by a minor Australian music celebrity—by playing the lugubrious country-and-western song "I Thank You", recorded in 1969 by former boxing champion Lionel Rose.
  • David Rooney of "Variety" assessed that despite the bizarre meeting between film noir and gruesome fairy tale featuring "commanding perfs and arresting visuals", the helmer "encumbers the lugubrious thriller with pretentious hokum".
  • His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years.

  • "Hyperaspis lugubris", the lugubrious lady beetle, is a species of lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is found in North America.
  • The movement therefore did not start in lugubrious cellars with wine and candles, but in an alcohol-free vegetarian café where carrot juice was the strongest drink.
  • He specialised in taking cheerful, upbeat songs and singing them in a comically downbeat, lugubrious fashion.
  • David Fallows, in his article on "spoof articles" in the 2001 New Grove, cites Gnocchi's unusual career, singularly titled and voluminous works, and "lugubrious" portrait (in "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart") as an example of why spoof articles do not need to exist in music encyclopedias: there are already musicians so strange that spoofs would be superfluous.
  • John Slater (22 August 1916 – 9 January 1975) was an English character actor who usually portrayed lugubrious, amiable cockney types.

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