Graveyardy

Quick meaning: Graveyardy is an adjective meaning (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.

Meaning

(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a graveyard.

Example Sentences

For one thing, she hated old Mrs. Payne’s room. It smelt to her “graveyardy.” She was sure that the windows were never opened.

You can’t think how horrid and—and sort of fungusy she makes things. The whole hall smells of her dreadful crape. And she’s worse than papa ’bout Sundays, and has such a graveyardy way of talking.

Here we have had to overcome the prejudice in the minds of some that evergreens have a “graveyardy” effect. This prejudice is also due to the fact that only the commoner kinds of arbor-vitaes and cedars have been used.

Some of the songs were rather Victorian; I particularly recall a graveyardy nostalgic one called ‘Those Evening Bells’ but recall it chiefly because I learnt to sing ‘seconds’ in it, i.e. contralto; and can sing it still.

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