lúgubre
gloomy ; grim ; grim-faced ; dreary ; spooky ; spine-tingling ; doleful ; lugubrious ; blackly ; drearily ; doomy ; mournful ; plangent.
In spite of gloomy conditions thoughtful library leaders are saying that opportunities have never been more promising.
Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.
In the English language, people are described as grim, while in Journalese they are referred to as being 'grim-faced'.
The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').
Records are even being sold with terrifying sounds designed to create a 'spooky' atmosphere at home.
This is a spine-tingling collection of real haunted houses and spooky ghost stories.
This year will go down as the most depressing doleful Christmas I've ever had.
Such epigones seldom present more than a lugubrious rehash and potpourri of their idols.
Some possible candidates would definitely include Tom Lehrer, a former Harvard professor who became a song writer of blackly satirical songs.
Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of Stein's voice.
It has been so damn dreary in Pittsburgh as of late, raining just about every day with little or no sunshine, so I've been in a very doomy mood.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.
de un modo lúgubre
spookily
The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.
