ghastly

While adamantly miserabilist, it does have a plot or at least one shocking plot point that’s so ghastly it made me giddy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Meanwhile, the sumptuous imagery and amiable pacing of “Wuthering Heights” trounce del Toro’s ghastly slog of a film.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

His penance is to “pass, like night, from land to land,” repeating his story: “And till my ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

The commissioner described Panorama's footage, obtained by secret filming, as "vile to watch", calling the officers involved "ghastly, ghastly individuals".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

“And really, it’s ghastly what we have to do to make our features show up on the screen. Completely different from what we’d wear out and about on an ordinary day.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Not least because, given various developing news stories relating to our hosts, the tournament has rather ghastlier noises-off than usual.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018

Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now investigators believe that both versions have a piece of the even ghastlier truth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unhappily for himself he knew it, and so he grew ghastlier yet, and for the life of him could not tell where to set his eyes.

From Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray

But she also wondered at something else, for in that pause the blood-stained face had grown ghastlier than before, and Moya could not understand it.

From The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

There’s a darkly funny early shot of Rudolf riding a horse from his yard up to the gates of Auschwitz, completing the world’s shortest, ghastliest commute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

Historian Timothy Snyder has defined Ukraine and its Eastern European vicinity as the Bloodlands, the most violent frontier of the ghastliest era in human history.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022

They made it to the Super Bowl in 2014, only to have the ghastliest ending in football history against the Patriots.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2021

It was that ghastliest of hours — 3 a.m. — bedtime a distant memory and daylight an eternity away.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

And if you were right, it's the ghastliest tragedy—for her....

From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay