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adjective

macabre

CEFR C1

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

In a sentence

Six example sentences with macabre, each labelled with its topic.

  • The animation has a macabre charm, with dancing skeletons in top hats leading a candlelit parade.

    Movies

  • Poe built a whole career on macabre detail, a ticking floorboard, a raven, a house that will not stay upright.

    Literature

  • Medieval painters loved the macabre, filling chapel walls with skulls and hourglasses to remind worshippers of time.

    Art

  • Saint-Saens wrote a macabre waltz in which a fiddle summons skeletons to dance until the rooster crows at dawn.

    Music

  • The final boss has a macabre design, a crown of bones over a face that never stops grinning.

    Gaming

  • The catacombs beneath the city are a macabre attraction, with walls of skulls stacked neatly along the tunnels.

    Travel

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