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- adverb In a
macabre manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is the card that got hundreds of Black Bostonian men harassed, arrested and in many cases “legally” roughed-up when Chuck Stuart gut-shot and killed his nearly full-term pregnant wife for insurance money and he blamed a manufactured Black assailant for the crime — and then macabrely picked out of a police-hustled lineup one Willie Bennett to cover for his devilish act?
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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It is the card that got hundreds of Black Bostonian men harassed, arrested and in many cases “legally” roughed-up when Chuck Stuart gut-shot and killed his nearly full-term pregnant wife for insurance money and he blamed a manufactured Black assailant for the crime — and then macabrely picked out of a police-hustled lineup one Willie Bennett to cover for his devilish act?
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I got some liquid bait and put it out last night, and I find myself macabrely fascinated by watching them find the bait and such.
Archive 2007-04-01 Bardiac 2007
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“Combinations of actors shot with blue chroma make-up, heavy Inferno mat work and the insertion of 3D geometry using Softimage where all used to create the fantastically surreal and macabrely horrifying images in this film.”
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What he said, as Dembley had found out, was macabrely at variance with the way he said it.
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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What he said, as Dembley had found out, was macabrely at variance with the way he said it.
Forfeit Francis, Dick 1968
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The effect of the whole was that of a shriveled and shrunken Phoenix, macabrely adorning the tomb of some lost pharaoh.
Oberheim (Voices) Christopher Leadem
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But in reality, this macabrely sycophantic act, in which Hariri the son courted his father's murderers, is the direct result of the US's weakening position in the region.
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The experience was both upsetting and macabrely exciting and although it may have wrecked our day, imagine what it was like for the young man who drowned and for his family?
SMITH Magazine Superfeed Jonathan_Cockburn 2009
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The experience was both upsetting and macabrely exciting and although it may have wrecked our day, imagine what it was like for the young man who drowned and for his family?
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