morbid

Example Sentences

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However, what Jemima and far too many children like her experience today goes far beyond morbid curiosity.

From Slate • May 12, 2026

The “expectant widow” line was a morbid, vaguely risqué gag, the kind of joke that has been standard fare at the Correspondents’ Dinner and roasts for decades.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

Between 2018 and 2023, the DOJ says, Aetna submitted or failed to withdraw erroneous codes for morbid obesity, applied to plan members whose body-mass index, or BMI, “was inconsistent” with such a diagnosis.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

As a reader might gather, “Neighbors” falls into the category of what is unkindly categorized as freak-show documentary—the characters are objects of morbid curiosity or, maybe, pathos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

She might as well have said to the fire, “don’t burn!” but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë