ghastliness

Example Sentences

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The goal is to diminish the ghastliness of Good’s death, and with it, the value of her life.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2026

Yet even with the grimness and ghastliness of war, gestures of hope and kindness are shining brightly for refugees who are crossing the border into these countries.

From Fox News • Mar. 7, 2022

But these are gimmicks that result in a ginned-up ghastliness that equates the crisis of endangered kids with the nightmare of a dying phone battery.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022

As if to underscore the ghastliness of inaction, both Zama and his almost-lover have experiences of watching, immobilized, as a large and likely poisonous spider crawls across a sleeping person’s face.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

For my seventeen-year-old brother, romance was an entirely new experience and a wonderful diversion from the ghastliness of ghetto life.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson