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
Whatever the judgment in history may be of the value to civilization of this eighteenth-century movement extending into the nineteenth, in politics, sociology, literature, with all its recklessness, morbidness, hopefulness, Byron represented it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
This diffused good-humor can only come from a mind which is free from any taint of morbidness.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
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
But this slight symptom of that disease we named, this morbidness incident to adolescence, is eventually overcome by 51 a dictionary and a grammar.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
