as in gruesome
extremely disturbing or repellent
a macabre movie about animated corpses
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Recent Examples of macabre
Henry & Oliver Bernsen The Bernsen brothers’ debut feature Bagworm (Sitges 2025) follows a string of genre shorts exploring the surreal and macabre sides of human experience.
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Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 14 Nov. 2025
The original movie shocked audiences, and its low-budget aesthetic helped make the madness look even more grisly, macabre and real.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Many former asylums are now macabre tourist attractions, whose treatment of their subject matter can range from the sensitive to the sensationalist.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
Two-hour walking tour touches on the gruesome and macabre events of the city's past, including grave robbing, a serial killing saloonist and other deadly mayhem.
—Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
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Peter offers her not only logic — a picture in which all the parts, however gruesome, fit together — but salvation.—
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The prosecution argued that being on drugs didn't excuse the gruesome attack.—
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Wednesday afternoon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the shooting horrific.—
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From a horrific account of an asteroid hitting Earth to an evil AI computer capable of designing deadly activities, readers will face the dark and mysterious corners of the human experience.—
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The shocking decision sends ripples through the Washington program and the college football transfer portal.—
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There are some great twists and turns leading to a shocking but very satisfying ending.—
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“Macabre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macabre. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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