Both Uses of
macabre
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- That's macabre, I had said, and he had just shrugged it off; he saw the business of death and dying every day.†
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- I didn't know if the warden had intended for us to see what was happening behind it, but we could, in macabre silhouette: the hood being placed over Shay's head, the noose being tightened against his neck, the two officers who'd secured him stepping backward.†
Definition:
disturbing and related to death or horror -- especially in a grim or eerie way