morbid
adjective
suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc..
morbidness
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a word derived from
morbid.
Example Sentences
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Its moral earnestness and stern purpose keep it from the obvious morbidness and distasteful pictures its plot inevitably suggests.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was young, however, and with no taint of morbidness.
From The Turnstile by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
I believe she would disinfect me of the last dregs of morbidness I still may have lurking inside me.
From In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim
No part of us is more susceptible of morbidness than the moral sense; none demoralizes more thoroughly when morbid.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
The Essenes found a remedy for morbidness in strictness as to meats and minute directions for the employment of time.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards
