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.
The creators of “Yellowjackets” said they didn’t set out to merely tease the show’s most macabre elements.
From New York Times
This is according to an American soldier, explaining the macabre tactic of playing tapes of loud voices during the Vietnam War to terrify the enemy.
From Los Angeles Times
“I am not being macabre, but if you ask a lot of people, that is the main reason they would buy the paper,” said Jim Helm, a longtime swim coach.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s our reigning master of the macabre, whose ghostly imagination still transports us to the eeriest of places.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
