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Synonyms for macabre

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Synonyms for macabre

susceptible to or marked by preoccupation with unwholesome matters

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Synonyms for macabre

shockingly repellent

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"And in a macabre sort of way it might be exactly what we needed.
'I personally find it very macabre. To dress someone up in new clothes and take smiling pictures, only to murder them by hanging is twisted.
| On the main stage the LBT welcome The Twins Macabre; a murderous duo that will leave you screaming with laughter in their comedy-horror cabaret show.
United in their love for the malevolent and macabre, the duo have taken their podcast to the Edinburgh Fringe, and undertaken several sell-out UK tours.
The swoop followed the death of eccentric home-owner David Marsh, a collector of macabre memorabilia and gothic items.
In presenting the danse macabre of "The Bight," I also hope to demonstrate Bishop's own contribution to the reinvigoration of Western tradition, something that a predominantly biographical, decanonized approach cannot reveal.
Defending, Duncan McReddie, said: "It may be a rather strange, macabre and unpleasant collection, but it is what he collects."
I have selected three early depictions of the printing press on which to focus (although other depictions will also be introduced where necessary to flesh out the argument): the famous danse macabre set in a printing shop, part of a set of danses macabres published by Mathias Huss in 1499; (4) the printer's devices (also called marks) depicting a printing press that were used by Josse Bade, commonly known as Badius, in the first three decades of the sixteenth century (1507, 1520, and 1529); and Albrecht Durer's 1511 drawing of a printing press.
Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre (Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe).
From a story made entirely of short vignettes about the months of the year but which range from pirates to igloos to a different kind of Sherlock-style whodunit, these are varied works that all contain a touch of twist and a touch of the odd and macabre, making them an excellent survey of the unexpected.
Local minister Reverend Arthur Christie said: "It's shocking and macabre. Were they treasure hunters?" He said a plaque on the village hall - built using a donation from Stephen - includes a description of a time capsule in the building's foundations.
Dismiss the film's macabre title, it's cosy matinee fare.
She makes it a success through the macabre stories she writes using the pen name Montgomery Flinch, since nobody would believe a thirteen-year-old girl could write such stories.
Paris redoute que les islamistes shebab de Somalie preparent "une mise en scene macabre" avec le corps de l'otage que l'armee francaise n'a pas reussi a liberer samedi dernier et celui d'un soldat mort durant l'operation, a declare hier lundi le ministre francais de la Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Rooney's central thesis is that notions of the macabre began in homiletic rhetoric, and emerged visually in pictorial art, with an ultimate flowering in transi tombs and images of the Danse Macabre and The Legend of the Three Living and Three Dead.