It added an element of almost morbid realism to a fantastical story.

These are rather melancholy, inexpressive; the flesh tints are anaemic, almost morbid.

She cultivated with almost morbid care this severity of dress and surroundings.

An almost morbid fear of seeming to make false pretences possessed her.

Hardin watched the young fellow's little blond mustache with an almost morbid interest.

And she listened with almost morbid curiosity concerning the finer details of legal intricacy.

With a grave, almost morbid tone, she said, "These windows bother me."

Elizabeth's mind ran on acquirements to an almost morbid degree.

Such an alliance, on Isabel's part, would have an air of almost morbid perversity.

Hannay noticed that Price took a peculiar and almost morbid interest in the junior partner.

Each man manifested an almost morbid curiosity touching on my personal habits and bodily idiosyncrasies.

His horror of gloom and darkness was almost morbid.

Miss Lovel had allowed herself to feel an almost morbid interest in Mr. Fairfax's betrothed.

His restlessness grew almost morbid, so that his mother found it nearly impossible to keep him indoors.

That's the explanation, he decided, scrutinising her with eager curiosity, with a new, strange, almost morbid feeling.

Among these were green celery and parsnips, both of which filled the boy with an almost morbid disgust.