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Macabre   Listen
adjective
macabre  adj.  
1.
Portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen. (Also spelled macaber)
Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, lurid.
2.
Pertaining to or portraying the grim aspects of death, or the allegorical dance of death.





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"Macabre" Quotes from Famous Books



... the street, between two vacant old storehouses. Zeke had whitewashed it without and calcimined it within, and with the free air that circulated the place this treatment was enough to make the front rooms passable. Over the iron mantel hung Zeke's "Knights of Macabre" sword in its scabbard. Mary Louise looked for the white-plumed hat but it had evidently been put away. On the left wall, in a brilliant gilt frame, hung a coloured portrait of Admiral Dewey. The artist had in some way inspired ...
— Stubble • George Looms


Words linked to "Macabre" :   sick, grisly, gruesome, grim, danse macabre, alarming, ghastly


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