Lethal and Macabre

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Lethal adjective - Likely to cause or capable of causing death.

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

Nearby Word: lethality

Macabre adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.

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

Military people, real or fictional, have a macabre (and often hilarious) tendency to give cutesy nicknames to some truly nasty and often lethal hardware.

Source: Cute as a Bouncing Betty
The fact that practically all of his deaths result in hilarious Have a Nice Death screens turns finding all these lethal permutations into an obsession... so much that there is an entire website dedicated to depicting these deaths in all their macabre glory.

Source: The Many Deaths of You
The villain in Danse Macabre 5: Lethal Letters uses hypnosis to turn people into these, the usual trigger being a special red envelope.

Source: Manchurian Agent

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