He was morbidly fascinated by dead bodies. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a morbid interest in death. ,morbid anatomy. From Dictionary.com.
ROBERTS: Sanjay, you keep using the phrase morbidly obese. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007] Reference
I am what could be called morbidly obese, and have been for almost the entirety of my life. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it] Reference
It can help people who are really, really -- the so-called morbidly obese patient lose weight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference
But the increase has been greatest among those known as the morbidly obese that is to say those with a BMI of more than 40. From Wordnik.com. [Our Big Problem] Reference
To be classified as morbidly or severely obese requires a BMI of more than 40, at least 60 per cent more than what is deemed ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I have a close friend who is "morbidly" obese I hate that term. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Place] Reference
Note, this also applies to "morbidly" obese, partly on the ground that surgery is more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [It is not your father's medical ethics any more] Reference
Ms. �GREWAL: He's kind of morbidly obese and sweaty, crazy hair, these intense facial expressions as he's singing. From Wordnik.com. [Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan] Reference
What kind of morbidly unhealthy turn is this website taking?. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
I admit it: I’m actually kind of morbidly entertained by that syndicated nighttime schmaltz-fest. From Wordnik.com. [2007 May 27 « Lean Left] Reference
This chap is what I'd call morbidly thin. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Santy Claus is morbidly obese and he is hundreds of years old. From Wordnik.com. [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference
Are you obese, overweight, of normal weight -- or perhaps morbidly obese?. From Wordnik.com. [In gauging own weight, many of us are clueless] Reference
In doing so, he dragged art out of the morbidly self-censorial Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Leonardo] Reference
But he was morbidly suspicious that every man's hand was turned against him. From Wordnik.com. [In Case of Fire] Reference
If anything, she seems to be more morbidly self-conscious and shy than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
She had said brace yourself, I'm broke and morbidly obese and out of my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Seasonal Discord] Reference
Whereas corn syrup made you morbidly obese, corn sugar makes you morbidly jolly. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Carl This Time?] Reference
She seemed restless, suspicious, and morbidly apprehensive of approaching danger. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
When it comes to our gasoline consumption, we're the morbidly obese of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Should You Pay $6 Per Gallon?] Reference
People morbidly joked that POZ would fail because its readers would literally die off. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, People Like Me Do Get HIV] Reference
However, it was also somewhat sad to see just how morbidly obese our nation has become. From Wordnik.com. [Tess Ghilaga: The Lioness and the Mouse] Reference
There are numerous types of weight-loss surgery for those of us who are morbidly obese. From Wordnik.com. [Letters And Clarification: What The Cia Knew And] Reference
The spleen is morbidly positive, and probably enlarged, while the liver is too negative. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
A morbidly obese gentleman labored into Dr. Hayek's office suffering from severe chest pain. From Wordnik.com. [How Dr. Keynes Will Kill The Patient] Reference
Most people with a BMI of 40 or more (classed as ‘morbidly obese’) would benefit from surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Weighing up the benefits of weight-loss surgery] Reference
Many of the divorce cases in New York are simply food for a set of morbidly curious scandal-mongers. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
Greeks had received complete plastic embodiment, or it must have been morbidly driven to abnormal inventions. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
So the morbidly obese gentleman then stumbled into Dr. Keynes office complaining about the same acute chest pain. From Wordnik.com. [How Dr. Keynes Will Kill The Patient] Reference
Those misshapen organs had an important agency in making him a misanthropic, morbidly sensitive, unhappy, desperate man. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And yet as he sat beside her he was keenly, almost morbidly conscious of the physical attraction of her fine young body. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
With one train from the West came several hundred of the morbidly curious, bent upon all the horrors which they could stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
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