• marx2k
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    1 year ago

    “Morbidly” doesn’t work in this context

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      1 year ago

      Why not?

      morbid /môr′bĭd/ adjective

      1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease.
        “read the account of the murder with a morbid interest.”
      2. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
        “morbid changes in tissues.”
      3. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome.
        “a morbid fear of heights.”
      4. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly.
        “a morbid condition; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.”
      5. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts.
        “morbid anatomy”

      Other than the fifth definition here, these all seem reasonable to me.