What is "morbidly"

Usage examples of "morbidly".

Boys are more liable to be morbidly excited when secluded from the society of girls, and vice versa.

The senses of the sick often become morbidly acute, and those things which in health would pass unnoticed, in sickness are so magnified as to occasion annoyance and vexation.

The subjects of dyspepsia frequently imagine that they require medicines to act upon the liver, desire active treatment, are endlessly experimenting in diet, daily rehearse their symptoms, and are morbidly sensitive.

These premature emissions indicate not only partial impotency, but also that the nerve-centres have become morbidly sensitive by the practice of solitary vice, or marital excesses.

DIARRHEA is an affection characterized by unnaturally frequent evacuations from the bowels of a liquid of morbidly soft consistency.

Indeed, he had no place for them now, and was, besides, more morbidly bent than ever on making good the proud words he had spoken.

Haldane and her daughters were not without natural affection, but they were morbidly sensitive to public opinion.

Ferrers certainly was right in his theory, that when we have known real adventures we grow less morbidly sentimental.

Lanyon had meant about my haggard looks: my face had become morbidly thin and drawn in the space of a single day, whilst my hair seemed equally neglected and diseased.

I was too irritable, with a morbidly developed sensitivity and an ability to distort the most ordinary facts and give them a totally different appearance and a totally different dimension.

There are moments when all the mental and spiritual forces, morbidly tense, seem suddenly to flare up with a bright flame of awareness, and at that moment something prophetic appears to the shaken soul, which seems tortured by a feeling of its future, and with anticipation.

But afterwards on reflection I began to feel a little bit disturbed about it, and to wonder whether as a race and a generation we are not getting morbidly fascinated with crime, and liable to suffer for it?

Though morbidly sensitive to changes in his physical surroundings, he would be slow to act upon such sensations, would not prove impulsive, not because he was sluggish, but because he was merely irresolute.

The body was ill-nourished, and the mind, concentrated forever upon one subject, had recoiled upon itself, had preyed upon the naturally nervous temperament, till the imagination had become exalted, morbidly active, diseased, beset with hallucinations, forever in search of the manifestation, of the miracle.

Hall School, but she had been his morbidly avid pupil and looked fiendishly like him at times.