as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a macabre movie about animated corpses
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Recent Examples of macabre
The outcome was enabled by the macabre misfortune of three House Democrats dying since the 119th Congress opened on Jan. 3.
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Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with Trump at the White House last month, in a macabre audience that saw Bukele joke with Trump about trans athletes and publicly refuse to return or release Abrego Garcia.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
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Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 30 May 2025
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with Trump at the White House last month, in a macabre audience that saw Bukele joke with Trump about trans athletes and publicly refuse to return or release Abrego Garcia.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 19 May 2025
The end of season 2, which saw Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun try to stage a rebellion against the macabre games and the antagonistic Front Man, ended in a cliffhanger tragedy, so tension is already high going in for this final round.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 19 May 2025
As pioneers of the horror genre, Universal crafted this new world to pay homage to the spooky and macabre stories that helped get the company through the 1930s and stay in business.
—Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for macabre
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But Trump and Epstein’s association has been out in the open for nearly a quarter century; nineties-era footage of the gruesome twosome together at Mar-a-Lago, leering at a group of young cheerleaders, has been circulating since at least 2019.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
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Six decades later, Hamas would engage in a gruesome competition with Fatah to outdo one another with terrorist attacks during the 1990s and early 2000s.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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That this horrific upheaval comes care of Lucy’s work is the real kicker.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 June 2025
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This is what Qasem Hassan had feared from the start—that the horrific violence inflicted on Israelis on October 7th would be used to justify a war without limits, dehumanizing all Palestinians.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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But then what looked like a tap-in par on the long par-three eighth turned into a shocking miss.—
Doug Ferguson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2025
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When Burns bogeyed the par-3 16th, missing an eight-foot par putt that seemed shocking for a player whose play on the greens had been incredible all week, Spaun saved par with a clutch second shot that put him five feet from the cup.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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“Macabre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macabre. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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