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lugubrious

(adj): excessively mournful
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3 months ago Milosrdenstvi said:

The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection.

"What are you doing there?" he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles.

I am drinking," replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air.

"Why are you drinking?" demanded the little prince.

"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.

"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who already was sorry for him.

"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.

"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.

"Ashamed of drinking!" The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence.

And the little prince went away, puzzled.

"The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd," he said to himself, as he continued on his journey.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8 months ago labmaven said:

dbmag9 - I LOVE your comment. I will never think of lugubrious the same way, which is the point, right?

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

There. Now you're even. Unless.... *mwwahaha*

about 1 year ago Prolagus said:

I love lugubrious dog faces. And I would love your dog's. (seven)

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

That's five. Oh, wait--that's six, if I say "chained_bear's dog."

about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

Well, I'm going to talk about my dog so she'll have seven as well. My dog is a hound dog. She has a lugubrious expression, even when she's happy.

about 1 year ago Prolagus said:

OK, now he has seven.

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

That your dog deserves two comments? Well, doesn't every dog? :-)

c_b, spaniel sounds all spangly to me.

about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

... oh... What were you saying?

about 1 year ago Prolagus said:

I didn't say my dog looks lugubrious!

about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

I think Cocker spaniels do look kind of mournful. Not as mournful as, say, Bassett hounds (mine is not a Bassett though).

Does anyone else think spaniel is a good-mouthfeel word?

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Really? I wouldn't have thought it possible for an English cocker spaniel to look lugubrious. :-)

about 1 year ago Prolagus said:

My dog, an English cocker spaniel, would deserve two comments as well.

about 1 year ago reesetee said:

Because your dog is especially lugubrious? :-)

about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

Why did I say the same thing twice?

over 2 years ago chained_bear said:

This is the exact word to describe my dog's expression.

over 2 years ago brtom said:

"(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.)"
Joyce, Ulysses, 15

over 2 years ago chained_bear said:

Lugubrious describes, at any given moment, the facial expression of my hound dog.

over 2 years ago dbmag9 said:

Your mind oozes glumness. What word could better describe your emotion?

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