morbid

adjective mor·bid \ ˈmȯr-bəd \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Examples: morbid in a Sentence

Definition of morbid

1 a : of, relating to, or characteristic of disease

morbid anatomy

b : affected with or induced by disease

a morbid condition

c : productive of disease

morbid substances

2 : abnormally susceptible to or characterized by gloomy or unwholesome feelings

3 : grisly, gruesome

morbid details

morbid curiosity

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morbidly

adverb

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morbidness

noun

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Examples of morbid in a Sentence

Some of the material has been disclosed before, but it is wonderful to have the quotations from President Nixon and his aides gathered here in all their morbid splendor. —Anthony Lewis, New York Review of Books, 7 Apr. 2005
Danger can be sexy, but morbid proselytizing is a real buzzkill. —Emily Gordon, Nation, 5 May 1997
When I was a kid, I harbored a morbid fear of feathers. Feathers. Not a single feather or a few loose feathers, like the ones I'd stick in my naps to play Indian, but feathers in a bunch, … —John Edgar Wideman, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 1994
She suffered from a morbid streak which in all the life of the family reached out on occasions—the worst occasions—and touched us, clung around us, making it worse for her; her unbearable moments could find nowhere to go. —Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings, 1983
She has a morbid interest in funerals.
He has a morbid sense of humor.
a morbid fascination with death
wanting to learn about a celebrity's downfall out of morbid curiosity
suffering from a morbid condition
The child has a morbid fear of snakes.

Recent Examples of morbid from the Web

With every violent jerk, the blood was visibly draining from his pain-twisted face, leaving his normally dark skin a morbid shade of gray.

— wesley snipes, The Root, "Talon of God," 27 May 2018
The morbid reiteration that life is not over depicts a man all too aware of the recklessness and readiness of his compatriots to jump to violence as their default response.

— SI.com, "World Cup Countdown: 6 Weeks to Go - The Own Goal That Killed Andres Escobar," 13 May 2018
But there’s exquisite comedy in his careless one-liners, with Cumberbatch wrapping Patrick’s morbid humor around himself like a protective coat.

— sophie gilbert, The Atlantic, "Patrick Melrose Is a Lacerating Tour de Force," 10 May 2018
Though a reboot of The Crow starring Jason Momoa is set to arrive in theaters in 2019, no redux will be able to temper the morbid fascination that still surrounds the original film.

— jennifer m. wood, WIRED, "The 11 Best Comic Book Movies You Can Stream Right Now," 4 May 2018
Authorities in Texas and Louisiana are investigating possible connections between the morbid discoveries of severed heads near two lakes 150 miles apart.

— matthew martinez, star-telegram, "Severed heads of auburn-haired women make Texas, Louisiana cases 'similar,' investigators say | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 27 Apr. 2018
Future devices could also help control of morbid obesity, Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and erectile dysfunction, Sayet said.

— ron hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Bluetooth-operated bionic sphincter controller close to human trial phase," 9 Apr. 2018
His father worked in the commercial art trade and owned a blanket that was once used by a victim of the 1918 flu — a morbid keepsake that Dr. Crosby credited with stimulating his interest in epidemiology.

— harrison smith, Washington Post, "Alfred Crosby, environmental historian of ‘Columbian exchange,’ dies at 87," 5 Apr. 2018
Further, and this is just a morbid reality, there will be more school shootings before the November elections, so the focus on voting and registering thousands of teenagers to vote won’t suddenly dissipate after summer vacation.

— jason johnson, The Root, "Yes, the March for Our Lives Was About Black People, Too—and It’s About Time," 26 Mar. 2018

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