ghoulish
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Awarding only one star, the Independent's Clarisse Loughrey described the film as a "ghoulish, soulless cash grab".
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
What makes the character indelible is the ghoulish heavy makeup, a bright red wig with tiny bangs, and oversized tinted sunglasses -- a cartoonish look that has gone viral.
From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026
He was a ghoulish host of a late-night television horror program in the 2005 vampire movie “The Roost,” then played a wagon-train missionary in the 2007 western “Seraphim Falls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
He takes this ghoulish stance in the name of making “The Five” more entertaining.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
She awakened me what I guessed to be a few minutes later, not with ghoulish wails as might be expected, but as a mother would wake up her beloved child.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Vocabulary lists containing ghoulish
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