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macabre

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Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.

You two seem to have similar artistic sensibilities, both very interested in the macabre.

After all, he was on television every week, telling macabre stories, frightening us.

And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.

Over the past few years, macabre signs of vampire burials have been unearthed across Europe and even in the United States.

For the significance of the French word macabre we must turn to the Arabic makabir, signifying a burial place or cemetery.

"All over but the cheering," he replied with that strange, macabre humor which often comes to solace men about to die.

At Rouen in the aitre (atrium) or cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.

The Danse Macabre itself is a subject which is well nigh exhaustless.

Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to macabre, such as: frightening, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, and gruesome.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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