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• Dignified and formal
• Really terrible, deplorable
• Sombre and dignified
• Earnest, grave
• Grave and serious about melons
• Atrocious, dire
• Serious and humourless
• 'Earnest, grave (6)'
• Extremely bad
• 'Dignified, sombre (6)'
• 'Sedate, grave (6)'
• That's the only way to start to be serious.
• Although so religious, one is in the soup
• In such a flaw you would be quite shocking
• The matter about ten in a reverent way