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macabre Definition In English

0 used to describe something that is very strange and unpleasant because it is connected with death or violence:
- She has a pretty macabre sense of humour.
- Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.
1 causing shock and fear because connected with death, esp. strange or cruel death:
- After the diagnosis, he said he just wanted to stay “above ground,” she recalled, smiling at his macabre humor.

The cost of this danse macabre will mop up a goodly portion of the money bled from charitable institutions.
It said that the alternatives to hanging were equally macabre, debasing to those who took part and corrosive of a civilised society.
That report shows that all the alternatives to hanging are equally macabre and corrosive to a civilised society.
Such solemnity is even more potent as the reference to tragic grandeur has already been preceded by a macabre reference to the "tomb-like stillness" of the place (41).
Redon's inter pretation of the organic menace that threatens to overwhelm the saint was that of the macabre rapidly-breeding microbe.
The chapter ends with a warning to parents about "verbal danger signs" such as an increase in the use of profane language, aggressive discourse, macabre content, and hate expressions.
But the macabre transfer of racial tactics into the realm of death appears less fascinating than the way they were organized around the control of material bodies.
At other times the premonitory value of a macabre description can be perceived only very late in the novel.