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ghastly::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | charnel, sepulchral |
| Derivation | ghastliness |
ghastly shrieks.
Examples of ghastly
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Fiercely boiling water will agitate the eggs, which will end up looking ghastly.
From the inrich.com
That ghastly number, the number of those who die needlessly, is only increasing.
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A mixture of intermittent rain and steady sweat produced a rather ghastly image.
From the newsday.com
And every ghastly second of this gallows march was followed by television crews.
From the smh.com.au
Josh Duell played with a leg injury so ghastly the limb literally turned black.
From the timesunion.com
The Ducks had redefined rock bottom with each ghastly stop on their opening trip.
From the kentucky.com
You will never find out who suggested placing those ghastly teeth where they are.
From the odt.co.nz
If everyone read their copy out loud we'd avoid a lot of ghastly marketing-speke.
From the badlanguage.net
We can see how he would let his brother talk him into doing such a ghastly thing.
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- Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
- Charnel: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
- (ghastliness) the quality of being ghastly
- Horrifyingly shocking; Extremely bad; In a ghastly manner
