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macabre

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1. macabre - Adjective

2. macabre - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. H. P. Lovecraft

Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality. Paulo Coelho

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. Jessica Mitford

I fall into the category of Weird West, but I think it may be more of a "Down West” as I'd like to call it, for its sense of macabre western humor. Lorin Morgan-Richards

I am most comfortable with writing and pen and ink illustrations. My filter tends to be cut ups of what is around me blurred into my own feelings and interests of the Victorian era. I don't try to categorize myself but I do recognize my influences are a bit more macabre than usual. Lorin Morgan-Richards

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. Nicolas Cage

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