All 10 Uses of
morbid
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It was almost a morbid condition.†
Chpt 3 *
- "No, you have a charming nature, though it's been distorted, and I quite understand why you have had such an influence on this generous, morbidly sensitive boy," Alyosha answered warmly.†
Chpt 10
- Their faces betrayed hysterical, intense, almost morbid, curiosity.†
Chpt 12
- It must be noted that our prosecutor was in general too hasty and morbidly impressionable.†
Chpt 12
- He talked at length and with erudition of "aberration" and "mania," and argued that, from all the facts collected, the prisoner had undoubtedly been in a condition of aberration for several days before his arrest, and, if the crime had been committed by him, it must, even if he were conscious of it, have been almost involuntary, as he had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.†
Chpt 12
- And can Katerina Ivanovna, with her intelligence, her morbid sensitiveness, have failed to understand that people would talk like that?†
Chpt 12
- Perhaps people will cry out against me that I am morbid, hysterical, that it is a monstrous slander, that I am exaggerating.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, don't believe me, think of me as morbid, but remember my words; if only a tenth, if only a twentieth part of what I say is true—even so it's awful!†
Chpt 12
- Persons severely afflicted with epilepsy are, so the most skillful doctors tell us, always prone to continual and morbid self-reproach.†
Chpt 12
- The sight of the rainbow-colored notes may have made a morbid impression on his imagination, but with no immediate results.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(morbid as in: a morbid curiosity) suggesting death and decay; or an unhealthy interest in disturbing thoughts -- such as of death or cruelty