morgue

IPA: mˈɔrg

(archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
(archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Examples of "morgue" in Sentences

Bill sat at the table, his own appetite gone, stung by Ken’s use of the word morgue.
The drab but pain-filled room at Baghdad's morgue is a stark reminder of how much this country still suffers.
What the hell, I wasn't busy and it sounded fun, so I called the morgue, talked to the city desk and ended up writing a ten-grapher.
The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS on condition of anonymity.
It's a good thing, too, because the morgue is pretty much overrun by this point - and our protagonists are trying to fight their way out.
TUCHMAN: After meeting Denise, we called morgue officials, who this week notified Denise Herbert that one of their unidentified bodies was indeed her mother.
TUCHMAN: After meeting Denise, we called morgue officials, who this week notified Denise Herbert that one of their unidentified bodies was, indeed, her mother.
A place she’d never really thought about until last night, when her tiny baby slipped from her into the grim-looking doctor’s hands and she heard him whisper the word morgue.