(a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Example Sentences:
(1) His early films Bottle Rocket and Rushmore helped establish the careers of Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzmann, the latter film also marking the start of Bill Murray's celebrated lugubrious late period.
(2) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
(3) We have applied the technique to the all-female, chromosomally homomorphic gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris.
(4) Adult Eremias lugubris in southern Africa are concealingly colored and move with a typical lizard gait, but the jet-black and white juveniles are conspicuous and forage actively with arched backs.
(5) They have a particular flow in them.” He sighs, mock-lugubriously.
(6) To describe his work in progress, he jotted down a list of hyperbolic adjectives: "Astounding, extraordinary, surprising, superhuman, supernatural, unheard of, savage, sinister, formidable, gigantic, savage, colossal, monstrous, deformed, disturbed, electrifying, lugubrious, funereal, hideous, terrifying, shadowy, mysterious, fantastic, nocturnal, crepuscular."
(7) His lugubrious presence at Queen Beatrix’s abdication in 2013 couldn’t but suggest a certain longing, the same year Belgium’s King Albert stood down for his son.
(8) The presence of a neuropeptide immunologically related to somatostatin (SRIF) has been investigated in the neurosecretory cells of two regenerating planarian species (Dugesia lugubris and Dendrocoelum lacteum).
(9) A specific polyclonal antiserum directed against the somatostatin-28(1-14) of vertebrates was applied to sections of the planarians Dugesia lugubris and Dendrocoelum lacteum.
(10) But, as it turned out, the male audience did not respond to lugubrious storylines about thickening waists, disappearing hairlines, erectile dysfunction and mounting tuition fees.
(11) It is hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic."
(12) The leech, Myzobdella lugubris (= Illinobdella moorei), was consistently present on or near the lesions.
(13) Other organisms including Herpobdella testacea and Helobdella stagnalis (Hirudinea), Acellus aquaticus (Isopoda), Planaria lugubris (Turbellaria) and L. truncatula egg clusters failed to interfere with miracidial host-finding.
(14) Characteristics of spatial orientation in T-maze were studied in 1768 Planaria of following types: Dugesia tigrina (sexless and sexual race), Dugesia lugubris, Ijmia tenuis, Bdellacephala punctata.
(15) sp., parasite of Charadriiform Birds (Tringa flaviceps; Micropalama himantopus; Gallinago gallinago delicata; Squatarola squatarola) of Guadelupa and also of a Passeriforme, Quiscalus lugubris.
(16) The corpora pedunculata of the wood ant (Formica lugubris Zett.)
(17) The localization of adenylate-cyclase activity in Dugesia lugubris s.1.
(18) Enfield's got a pleasant, malleable face, and he's lugubrious in the cheeriest of ways.
(19) Among birds, 1.9% of the 421 identified animals found in the stomachs of grackles (Quiscalus lugubris), 1.6% of the 364 animals found in the stomachs of free-ranging chickens, and 0.3% of the 4642 animals found in the stomach of cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis) were A. variegatum ticks.
(20) He also starred in that film as the lugubrious Silent Bob alongside his jumping-bean sidekick Jay, played by Smith's pal Jason Mewes.
Mawkish
Definition:
(a.) Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
(1) They make you stand with a mangy dog and force you to be mawkish: "This is Fido - he needs a new home.
(2) She is single-minded, but she ramps it up, as if to sabotage journalistic attempts to frame her life in mawkish, triumph-over-adversity terms.
(3) "Without getting too mawkish about it I come from a family which, like lots of families, has been very heavily affected and disfigured by the revolutions and the wars of the last sort of century.
(4) It is difficult to observe, without the option of yelling and swearing, how disingenuous this is, how slimy and mawkish for a government happy to live with the idea of people living in squalor, in fuel poverty, going hungry, suddenly to find itself unable to bear the idea of a child in a smoky car.
(5) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(6) Now, for all that we mawkishly spray the bicycles of dead cyclists white and chain them to lamp posts, for all that we heap cellophane-wrapped flowers in remembrance of murder victims and lost celebrities alike, we have never been worse at mourning.
(7) It doesn't do to get mawkish – it's not the end of the world, certainly not for Ross, who is generally thought to feed on adversity and get a bit lazy in good times.
(8) Jacqueline Wilson's brand of naive narrative prevents her books from being mawkish or sentimental.
(9) The endless mawkish comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin snippets.
(10) If that makes it sound mawkish or grim, it really isn't: there is sadness and there are regrets, but most of all there is plenty of laughter, lots of fun, tenderness, honesty and plain speaking.
(11) He was very sensitive to the danger that unless they were careful the film could become very mawkish and sentimental, "and there were a lot of nuns present all the time, which always makes you feel a little bit irreverent.
(12) He showed too that he has a nice line in self-deprecation and is capable of altering his register from light to shade, even if the lower-decibel passages sometimes veered toward the mawkish and had one or two unkind voices in the press corps recalling the notorious "quiet man" performance of Iain Duncan Smith.
(13) He is indeed a wonderfully entertaining poet, and his fine judgment in such matters persists in the unprecedentedly personal final poems, "Maren" and "Iona", their tone, as he rightly thought, "not mawkish .
(14) They're corny, mawkish – but they're shameless enough to get you to press the button.
(15) In the light of this merrily unceasing gravy train, it's perhaps a bit rich that anyone, anywhere, is only now criticising Hologram Tupac for making money off a dead man; the past 16 years have been an object lesson in music industry exploitation, and surely it's impossible to sink lower than that mawkish Elton John duet anyway?
(16) People say John Lewis has been canny by making an annual mawkish short film instead of having someone shouting: “It’s deals deals deals at John Lewis this Christmas!”, but this is really taking it up a level.
(17) Perhaps there is resentment because the clemency and respect that are being mawkishly displayed now by some and haughtily demanded of the rest of us at the impending, solemn ceremonial funeral, are values that her government and policies sought to annihilate.
(18) True, none of the identikit ballads that have hogged the Christmas No 1 slot since the demise of the Spice Girls are giving Unchained Melody's publishers a squeaky bum – it's unlikely, for instance, that Shayne Ward's That's My Goal will ever be "our song" for any couple – but, Beatles and Spice Girls aside, these ballads are merely continuing a late December tradition of mawkishness and base sentimentality.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest It’s an intriguing take, suggesting an ET-like robot movie with a Spielbergian sense of optimism about the unknown that will hopefully avoid the mawkish sentimentality of the US film-maker’s own AI.
(20) After nearly five decades, I have never been able to tell you that I love you, for fear you will see this as trite and mawkish.