sick joke
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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How to use sick joke in a sentence
The next moments felt like a sick joke, some kind of misunderstanding.
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