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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 Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

This diffused good-humor can only come from a mind which is free from any taint of morbidness.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

To my growing morbidness it seemed that over the beauty of the place hung an impalpable but certain curse.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

Who, I'd like to know, could flame into love-talk or sink into the mud of morbidness from a starting-point of anything so sprightly as crumbs and coffee-cups?

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von