How to Use morbid in a Sentence
morbid
adjective
- The child has a morbid fear of snakes.
- He has a morbid sense of humor.
- She has a morbid interest in funerals.
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Claude takes the men to a Thai strip club as a morbid send-off.
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Terry Nguyen,
Vulture,
26 May 2024
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Many of these are of a morbid cast, relics in the saintly sense.
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Brett Martin,
New York Times,
28 Nov. 2023
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The Addamses are dressed in dark, morbid black, and the Beinekes are in bright yellows and whites.
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Rebecca Bogdanovic,
Orange County Register,
3 May 2017
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For most of us, the idea of a funeral is rather morbid.
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Josh Linkner,
Detroit Free Press,
10 Feb. 2018
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Here, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
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Rick Bentley,
kansascity,
12 Oct. 2017
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This is morbid, but is the fact that Jack was cremated have to do with the fire?
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Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
27 Sep. 2017
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The book’s morbid sense of humor will hit the Halloween sweet spot.
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New York Times,
12 Oct. 2017
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Since that’s not in the equation, the focus goes from a morbid game of chance to a smart whodunit.
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Rick Bentley,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Oct. 2017
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But, not to be morbid or anything, but Glass will turn 82 this year.
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Sam Mellinger,
kansascity.com,
23 May 2017
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But morbid mementos of the crime may still linger beneath the surface of the land.
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Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Feb. 2020
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Not to be morbid about it, but her father had lived to be ninety-nine.
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Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2018
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Then, pick your poison (or, poisson in French for the less morbid), and hit Start Order.
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Marissa Miller,
Teen Vogue,
20 Oct. 2017
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As for the building’s morbid past, Cohn and Renner are unfazed.
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Amanda Yeager,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2024
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There’s even a puzzle with Nate’s picture on it, just to give it that extra morbid edge.
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Vulture,
13 June 2023
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This explains a lot about his thing with morbid romance.
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New York Times,
19 Oct. 2017
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My desire to do this movie was to understand why those two girls went down this morbid path.
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Matthew Jacobs,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2024
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This may all sound morbid, but calling My Friend Dahmer a thriller or horror film feels like a stretch.
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Nathan Mattise,
Ars Technica,
5 Nov. 2017
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Scragg accepts that his livelihood and passion will be seen by many as morbid.
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Oscar Schwartz,
WIRED,
21 Aug. 2019
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Preparing for the end of life needn't be morbid, as five minutes spent with Fremont will prove.
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John Reinan,
Star Tribune,
7 May 2021
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Trump was somber during the news conference, even morbid at times.
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Chris Megerian,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2020
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One staffer seemed to shrug off the issue as part of the morbid reality of surgical work.
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Alex Horton,
chicagotribune.com,
15 Sep. 2017
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The trip to Spain, for instance, includes a morbid pilgrimage to the spot where Gina’s parents died.
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Michael O’Sullivan,
idahostatesman,
26 Oct. 2017
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Then, cleansing renovations remove the stains of the past and take these homes from morbid to marvelous.
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Selena Barrientos,
House Beautiful,
5 Sep. 2019
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Violence: This is about a mysterious death, so there is some morbid content with the shots of the dead body.
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Katie Walsh,
chicagotribune.com,
11 Dec. 2019
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Last week’s episode of Pretty Little Liars ended on a major cliffhanger — and a morbid one at that.
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De Elizabeth,
Teen Vogue,
6 July 2016
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Thus, Free Solo is thrilling for its footage and what its subject tries to accomplish, but a sense of existential ambivalence comes with that morbid thrill.
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Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy,
EW.com,
17 Aug. 2024
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During that installment, the couple meet a rather more morbid fate, introducing us to the afterlife and kicking off what is now a two-part film franchise.
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Jack Smart,
Peoplemag,
7 Sep. 2024
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