Bad and Macabre

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Macabre and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Macabre" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Macabre adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.

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Bad and macabre are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Macabre".

Roderick "Digger" Krupp was a gravedigger gone bad who, as the Horror Host of Tower of Shadows often told his macabre stories to victims while he was burying them alive.

Source: Buried Alive
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: The "macabre sense of humor" variety is hinted at with Roscoe.Dodger: Roscoe, Roscoe, is this us losing our sense of humor?

Source: Disney / Oliver & Company
Breaking Bad, though quite a macabre show from the start, retained a prominent Black Comedy element in its first and second seasons.

Source: Knight Of Cerebus / Live-Action TV

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