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None of this could keep the wedding, reported the Daily Mail, from being “quite ghastly and tacky.”

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

As the Wehrmacht fought these ghastly battles in the western U.S.S.R., it was also fighting the British in North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

"Really ghastly," says Dame Margaret Beckett, who was number two under John Smith in the 1990s.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025

Half-blind, the dead unicorn stumbled toward the green rock needle until it reached a depression at its base, where it dropped to the knees of its forelegs in a ghastly parody of prayer.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But the old man had heard the message, and through all the red glow cast by the flaming lamp, his livid face grew ghastlier still with strong emotion.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Even if she failed and he realised his ghastlier blunder, it would only precipitate the dramatic duel which she must face sooner or later.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

Minnesota will try to revive its fading playoff hopes four days after one of the ghastliest losses of the season, a 29-27 defeat Sunday to the previously winless Detroit Lions.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

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

Native American activists said it trivialized one of the ghastliest episodes in Dakota indigenous history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2017

It is the maddest and ghastliest crime ever known, the greatest anachronism ever conceived.

From "The Pomp of Yesterday" by Hocking, Joseph