macabre
Example Sentences
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Even so, the kaleidoscope of tales and vignettes, and the blurring of the banal with the macabre, produces a dusky, dreamlike atmosphere that envelopes one’s thoughts like a fine mist.
But a few days after the conviction, on the night of 15 April, it all ended in a rather macabre manner.
From BBC
Known for her over-the-top death scenes, Bernhardt had a flair for melodrama, and in her private life, too, she was eccentric with a taste for the macabre.
From New York Times
“Dimanche” succeeds, in its macabre, elliptical way, in bringing the issue home, with tornadoes whooshing dinner from the table and a shark swimming through a flooded living room.
From New York Times
The huge mammal had become a macabre tourist attraction with people reportedly travelling for miles to see the carcass.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
