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Recent Examples of funereal Last Friday, a sullen Antonio Conte appeared in a funereal black hoodie for his weekly press conference. James Horncastle, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025 Jon Stewart says Vice President Harris overseeing President-elect Trump’s electoral victory as a tally of states was read on the House floor Monday had a funereal feeling to it. Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2025 That film was a loving, baroque homage to Murnau’s original, staged with funereal elegance and starring a melancholic Klaus Kinski in chalk-white makeup as the titular fiend. David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024 Based on true events, director Maggie Betts' (The Novitiate) latest drama retells a real-life legal case that exposed massive inequality in funereal care and the way Black communities were being regularly overcharged. Matt Kamen, WIRED, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for funereal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funereal
Adjective
  • Field’s somber, clear-eyed Sonya has ardent desires but few illusions.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Scottish murder trials were focuses of intense interest as well as somber legal proceedings.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Outside of the December slide, this is as bleak as it’s looked for the Rangers this season.
    Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Voters were also asked to give one word to describe the Democratic Party, and the responses were bleak.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The truth is more depressing: This show is bad in the usual manner of reality television.
    Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That wasn’t even the most depressing of Vlasic’s quotes.
    Scott Powers, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The couple even hires a nanny to care for the doll but shortly after her arrival, strange occurrences begin leading them down a dark path.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Same goes for Lady Gaga and her fire-red McQueen gown, which hit all the right notes of dark romance.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mindfulness mediates the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in young adults.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There are four basic types of the disorder, which are characterized by periods of elation and hyper-activity known as manic episodes, which are then followed by depressive stages where the patient experiences feelings of sadness and depression.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • From its origins as a solemn feast day to its transformation into a global celebration of Irish heritage, St. Patrick's Day is a meaningful occasion for many.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Slow, solemn Christmas music accompanied them, as if in church.
    Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Retirement has been described by many who struggle as being incredibly lonely.
    Lorraine Wiseman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Four months ago, the lonely widower met Anna Valenza.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Fourteen years of war have left the country desolate, and its people exhausted; millions have been displaced or were forced to become refugees.
    Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani, The Dial, 25 Mar. 2025
  • That quality is maintained first and foremost by a desolate whistling-wind sound effect in the background of all the scenes, along with a sustained droning musical score.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Funereal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funereal. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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