Jan 29, 2008 09:15
16 yrs ago
English term
Works in: English
casual morbid half-interest
English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Unlike the others, the old man's expression held something more than a casual, morbid, half-interest.
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| 4 +9 | passing and not very intense unhealthy interest |
Jack Doughty
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Change log
Feb 1, 2008 09:00: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
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+9
8 mins
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
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518
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passing and not very intense unhealthy interest
But the old man was more interested than that.
# suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
# ghoulish: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
# diseased: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Note added at 15 mins (2008-01-29 09:30:42 GMT)
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The above definitions are for "morbid", of course.
# suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"
# ghoulish: suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"
# diseased: caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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Note added at 15 mins (2008-01-29 09:30:42 GMT)
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The above definitions are for "morbid", of course.
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Marie-Hélène Hayles
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kmtext
14 mins
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Peter Skipp
1 hr
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d_vachliot (X)
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Carol Gullidge
: with yr analysis, but not sure about the ST!
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Thank you. I agree source text is not perfect (assuming that's what you mean by ST)
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V_Nedkov
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Cristina Santos
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Patricia Townshend (X)
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orientalhorizon
3 days 17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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