All 14 Uses of
morbid
in
Crime and Punishment
- But soon these new pleasant sensations passed into morbid irritability.†
Chpt 1.5
- In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.†
Chpt 1.5
- When he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his own case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his reason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carrying out his design, for the simple reason that his design was "not a crime…."†
Chpt 1.6
- All that working upon a man half frantic with hypochondria, and with his morbid exceptional vanity!†
Chpt 3.2
- Sometimes, though, he is not at all morbid, but simply cold and inhumanly callous; it's as though he were alternating between two characters.†
Chpt 3.2
- Now that one can talk to you, I should like to impress upon you that it is essential to avoid the elementary, so to speak, fundamental causes tending to produce your morbid condition: in that case you will be cured, if not, it will go from bad to worse.†
Chpt 3.3
- "A familiar phenomenon," interposed Zossimov, "actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions—it's like a dream."†
Chpt 3.3
- Pyotr Petrovitch, who had made his way up from insignificance, was morbidly given to self-admiration, had the highest opinion of his intelligence and capacities, and sometimes even gloated in solitude over his image in the glass.†
Chpt 4.3
- That's the explanation," he decided, scrutinising her with eager curiosity, with a new, strange, almost morbid feeling.†
Chpt 4.4
- "Yes, in our legal practice there was a case almost exactly similar, a case of morbid psychology," Porfiry went on quickly.†
Chpt 4.5
- I've studied all this morbid psychology in my practice.†
Chpt 4.5 *
- At times he was a prey to agonies of morbid uneasiness, amounting sometimes to panic.†
Chpt 6.1
- She is almost morbidly chaste, in spite of her broad intelligence, and it will stand in her way.†
Chpt 6.4
- Apart from the danger of her morbid excitement, there was the risk of someone's recalling Raskolnikov's name and speaking of the recent trial.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
-
(morbid as in: a morbid curiosity) suggesting death and decay; or an unhealthy interest in disturbing thoughts -- such as of death or cruelty