sick joke

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An anecdote intended to be humorous but actually in very bad taste, as in His stories turn out to be sick jokes about people who are handicapped in some way . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

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The next moments felt like a sick joke, some kind of misunderstanding.

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