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macabre
/ -brə, məˈkɑːbə /
adjective
gruesome; ghastly; grim
resembling or associated with the danse macabre
Other Word Forms
- ˈ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of macabre1
Word History and Origins
Origin of macabre1
Example Sentences
Then the plot departs from reality and descends into macabre humor, with Cole accidentally pushing the old lady down the stairs, killing her.
This macabre list also leaves out the thousands of people who have been shot and killed by law enforcement.
“Brad Pitt probably has to stay sequestered in a tower in a castle somewhere — it becomes no fun at all,” said Cassandra Peterson, the actor better known as the macabre movie hostess Elvira.
The three friends try to find their rhythm in the steps of the danse macabre she creates, even as old dance patterns of desire and friendship bring them closer to the encroaching flames.
The macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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