morbid
IPA: mˈɔrbʌd
adjective
- (originally) Of, or relating to disease.
- (by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
- Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
- Grisly or gruesome.
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Examples of "morbid" in Sentences
- I have got what you call morbid just in consequence of the sophistry by which I persuaded myself that wrong could be right.
- You totally need to get that mounted just like it is, call it morbid, but it would keep the story alive, and the memory even more so.
- The term morbid obesity is used to describe people whose body mass index (BMI) -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- is 40 or higher.
- "But you have a lot of people, especially outside the euro area, who spend a lot of time in what I call morbid speculation, asking 'what if, what if'."
- Possible reasons behind the spike include an uptick in morbid obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, along with hemorrhaging from the growing numbers of C-sections.
- "Even in the hangar at the Kennedy Space Center, the debris from the crew cabin is laid out separately in a private area, and officials have promised to not disclose what they characterize as morbid details."
- An astonishing number of his shorter works follow the inspiration of Crash, also filmed, this time by David Cronenberg, in morbid and almost loving accounts of “wound profiles,” gashes, fractures, and other inflictions on the flesh and bones.
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