as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a macabre movie about animated corpses
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Recent Examples of macabre
Inside the vast, white manufacturing hall, bags and bags of blood dangle overhead, suspended from a steel rail like macabre baubles.
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The action kicks off on February 14 with a macabre Valentines Day offering in The Dead Thing, which follows a woman who unearths a deadly secret during a romantic fling, and extends throughout the month.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Just as the rural is shorn of indigenous flora and female fetuses, as Balya observes in macabre ordinary fashion (referring to high rates of female infanticide), the dream of a life spent with special friend is a depletion reimagined as a marginal gain by the marginalized.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Netflix has invited fans to play non-lethal Squid Games, from The Challenge to immersive Squid Game: The Experience pop-ups on three continents, as though the point of the series was that macabre versions of childhood games are fun.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The action kicks off on February 14 with a macabre Valentines Day offering in The Dead Thing, which follows a woman who unearths a deadly secret during a romantic fling, and extends throughout the month.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Just as the rural is shorn of indigenous flora and female fetuses, as Balya observes in macabre ordinary fashion (referring to high rates of female infanticide), the dream of a life spent with special friend is a depletion reimagined as a marginal gain by the marginalized.
—Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2025
Netflix has invited fans to play non-lethal Squid Games, from The Challenge to immersive Squid Game: The Experience pop-ups on three continents, as though the point of the series was that macabre versions of childhood games are fun.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for macabre
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On September 2, 1885, in one of the most gruesome episodes of racial terror in American history, a group of white miners killed at least twenty-eight Chinese residents in Rock Springs and burned down the town’s Chinese quarter.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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This is the gruesome gulf between the parties in the Oval Office.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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Based on the memoir by Monique Smith, who endured a horrific childhood only to discover that her family wasn’t actually hers.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2025
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Read Next California Toddler disfigured by burns in ‘horrific’ child endangerment case in CA.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
5 Mar. 2025
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The newest Trump administration and the shocking vote that happened this week at the UN, the U.S. siding with North Korea in that vote.—
ABC NEWS,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the wake of such shocking, there is inevitable pain.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
27 Feb. 2025
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