The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lugubrious \Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. lygro`s sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality.
--Hawthorne.
-- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a lugubrious manner.
WordNet
adv. in a sorrowful lugubrious manner; "his long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion"
Usage examples of "lugubriously".
Doctor Fearnaught, too, remained silent, but morosely so, lugubriously so, despondently so.
The motorcycle outriders were sitting astride their machines flanking the newly polished but passenger-less Rolls-Royce command car, with its gay pennants and its driver sitting lugubriously at the wheel.
Lugubriously solemn, Adept Havelock raised his fingers to his fat lips and flapped them, making a de-de-de-de sound.
On the grubby movie screen on which, earlier in the journey, the inflight inevitability of Walter Matthau had stumbled lugubriously into the aerial ubiquity of Goldie Hawn, there were shadows moving, projected by the nostalgia of the hostages, and the most sharply defined of them was this spindly adolescent, Ismail Najmuddin, mummy's angel in a Gandhi cap, running tiffins across the town.
Fred Dove had purchased Tylenol and peppermint Tic Tacs before lugubriously departing for a busy afternoon of storm-damage estimates.