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disturbing because of graphic and emotional association with death
- That's macabre, I had said, and he had just shrugged it off; he saw the business of death and dying every day.
- 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.
There are no more uses of "macabre" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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