Thesaurus / morbid
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The tracking of these numbers feels like a morbid version of sports.
TALLYING UP A YEAR OF LOSS: A LOT OF POUNDS, TOO MANY LOVED ONES, COUNTLESS CONNECTIONSJERRY BREWERDECEMBER 27, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Setting aside the morbid possibility of an even worse year in the near future making 2020 look comparatively mild, our collective memory of 2020 still may still be salvageable.
HOW 2020 IS LIKE A COLONOSCOPYJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 10, 2020FORTUNE
That mix of cute yet morbid is a defining feature of The Sims.
'IT NEARLY BRINGS ME TO TEARS.' 20 YEARS ON, THE SIMS' DIEHARD FANS COULD NEVER LET GOMATTHEW GAULTMARCH 16, 2020TIME
The story of this untoward event illustrates at once the morbid habit of his mind and the bitter passions of those times.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER
The subject has its weak side too; it is morbid and somewhat sentimental at the end, but the fundamental emotion is sincere.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
Opium-smoking is a vice not only deleterious in itself, but one indulged in merely to satisfy a morbid craving.
A STATISTICAL INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF EPILEPSYALEXANDER HUGHES BENNETT
Other phrases, of a morbid tenderness, seem like music whispering consolation for unavowed sorrows and irremediable despair.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIER
One symptom of Tchaikovskys condition was the morbid sensibility of his artistic temperament.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
Have I grown morbid, or do they actually presume to reproach me with my failure to suicide?
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
I am nervous and morbid: the sight of a striped prisoner disgusts me; the proximity of a guard enrages me.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN
WORDS RELATED TO MORBID
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- septic
- toxic
- toxicant
- toxiferous
- venomous
- vicious
- viperous
- virulent
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