Sample Sentences for
morbid
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morbid as in:  a morbid curiosity

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    Her story included all the morbid details.
    morbid = disturbing
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    At the end of the novel, she rejects morbid thoughts and learns to find pleasure in life.
    morbid = an unhealthy interest in death and decay
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    She has a morbid interest in pathological fiction.
    morbid = disturbing
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    Some stared at the afflicted child with morbid fascination, but most turned away.  (source)
    morbid = an interest in disturbing things
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    Was he concerned that his old friend was morbidly retracing the footsteps of a lapsed romance?  (source)
    morbidly = with unhealthy focus on something unpleasant
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    For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Not to mention the morbidity of the subject. [The Grave Digger’s Handbook]  (source)
    morbidity = disturbingly related to death and decay
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    "Mr. Arthur's still alive?" "What a morbid question."  (source)
    morbid = suggesting an unhealthy interest in death
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    I found it morbidly fascinating that he hadn't changed clothes after the executions earlier that day.  (source)
    morbidly = in a manner that focuses on something that is disturbing or unhealthy psychologically
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    Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature.†  (source)
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    "How did the owner die? Like, how long was it before someone found him?" "God, you're morbid."  (source)
    morbid = unhealthfully interested in death or decay
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    Three morbidly obese hill people on motorized scooters are between me and my morning coffee.†  (source)
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    Small reason was there to doubt, then, that ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness he at last came to identify with him, not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations.†  (source)
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morbid as in:  morbidly obese

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    In 2014, the European Union first recognized morbid obesity as a disability.
    morbid = related to a serious health problem
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    By October, my morbid life was in full swing.  (source)
    morbid = unhealthy in a very bad or distasteful way
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    I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this.  (source)
    morbid = unhealthy (perhaps an interest suggesting death)
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    But again, the morbidity and mortality turned out to be high.  (source)
    morbidity = number of people affected by a disease
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    The other indent was morbidly obese, and I couldn't be sure of the person's gender.  (source)
    morbidly = very healthfully
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    A hundred diseases, all the fevers and contagions of human life, consumption, cancers, tumours and such morbidities, never enter the scheme of their life.†  (source)
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    Their patients were younger on average and had fewer accompanying illnesses than Dr. Iseman's in Denver, and as with many diseases, youthfulness and the absence of comorbidity were therapeutic advantages.  (source)
    comorbidity = related disease
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    Maternal morbidity (injuries in childbirth) occurs even more often than maternal mortality.  (source)
    morbidity = disease
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    Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn't affect me, that he didn't affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn't understand how morbidly right I was.  (source)
    morbidly = in an unhealthy manner
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    He wanted to learn everything about morbidity and mortality in the most disease-ridden country in the hemisphere.  (source)
    morbidity = disease
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    Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out.  (source)
    morbidly = so serious as to be of medical concern
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    Because when I told him the same thing three months ago, instead of accusing me of morbidity, he asked with genuine curiosity, "Why?"†  (source)
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    What it would feel like when I burned......J's entrance distracted my morbidity.†  (source)
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