sick joke

An anecdote intended to be humorous but actually in very bad taste, as in His stories turn out to be sick jokes about people who are handicapped in some way. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Angela	AN-jəl-ə (English), AHN-je-lah (Italian), AHNG-ge-lah (German)	English, Italian, German, Dutch, Romanian, Slovene, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian, Late Roman
Achilles	[ə'kili:z]
Phelps	[felps]
Zeph	ZEF	English
Carlo	KAHR-lo	Italian
Azzurra	ahd-DZOOR-rah	Italian