as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a macabre movie about animated corpses
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Recent Examples of macabre
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with Trump at the White House last month, in a macabre audience that saw Bukele joke with Trump about trans athletes and publicly refuse to return or release Abrego Garcia.
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Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
Human remains turned up in a macabre way when a scrapyard worker took a closer look at one of the junked vehicles sitting on the lot, according to investigators in North Carolina.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
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Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
Human remains turned up in a macabre way when a scrapyard worker took a closer look at one of the junked vehicles sitting on the lot, according to investigators in North Carolina.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for macabre
Adjective
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Six decades later, Hamas would engage in a gruesome competition with Fatah to outdo one another with terrorist attacks during the 1990s and early 2000s.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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But Trump and Epstein’s association has been out in the open for nearly a quarter century; nineties-era footage of the gruesome twosome together at Mar-a-Lago, leering at a group of young cheerleaders, has been circulating since at least 2019.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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That this horrific upheaval comes care of Lucy’s work is the real kicker.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 June 2025
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This is what Qasem Hassan had feared from the start—that the horrific violence inflicted on Israelis on October 7th would be used to justify a war without limits, dehumanizing all Palestinians.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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Continuing a recent pattern of face-to-furniture collisions on the talk show, the 69-year-old's head made a momentous journey plummeting toward the program's storied table at the top of Tuesday's live broadcast, after panelist Joy Behar made a shocking joke about Sean Combs.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
3 June 2025
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The toll represented a shocking increase from the 20 deaths recorded in 2019.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
2 June 2025
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“Macabre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macabre. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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