morbidamente — Italian False Friend
Stop saying this wrong in Italian
Italian
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This Italian word does not mean what you think.
morbidamente looks like it means "morbidly (in a creepy/death-obsessed way)".
But it actually means softly, gently.
If you want to say "morbidly (in a creepy/death-obsessed way)" in Italian, you say morbosamente.
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