Setting aside the morbid possibility of an even worse year in the near future making 2020 look comparatively mild, our collective memory of 2020 still may still be salvageable.
How 2020 is like a colonoscopy|jakemeth|September 10, 2020|Fortune
The resultant pop culture is as morbid and contagious as the epidemics they depict.
Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague|Scott Bixby|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The business of writing obituaries may seem, at first glance, a morbid affair.
The Day the Fairytale Died|Marilyn Johnson|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Morbid Anatomy, with Ebenstein at the helm, seems to do it all, from publishing books to leading international trips.
Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors|Nina Strochlic|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Morbid humor is often the best way to deal with this absurdity.
Dodging Rockets in Afghanistan as the Taliban’s Fighting Season Begins|Nick Willard|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I am quite exhausted by it, and have determined to break up this morbid condition.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His wife was supporting the family by keeping boarders, and he began to develop a morbid jealousy of her.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 56, March 1900|Various
They may develop a morbid taste for the game, which cannot be satisfied without it; but neither are they satisfied within it.
The home|Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Among the morbid agencies producing this variety of eczema are the products of indigestion.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)|Various
The important practical question is the prevention of the fulfilment of the morbid impulse during these impressionable years.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The morbid Flaubertian shrinking from reality is to be found to-day even in relatively robust minds.
The Author's Craft|Arnold Bennett
British Dictionary definitions for morbid
morbid
/ (ˈmɔːbɪd) /
adjective
having an unusual interest in death or unpleasant events
gruesome
relating to or characterized by disease; pathologica morbid growth
Derived forms of morbid
morbidly, adverbmorbidness, noun
Word Origin for morbid
C17: from Latin morbidus sickly, from morbus illness