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He later describes his work as “cleansing the world of an ancient evil,” and is haunted by a ghastly vision of a spirit he encountered abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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

The fever made his cheekbones a ghastly purple.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

I've never had a ghastlier half-hour than I've just spent in the humiliating multiplicity of these gifts.

From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by William Dean Howells

He is beside The ghastly Julio, and his ghastlier bride.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang

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

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

Still, like a good journalist, I never refuse an order of any sort; so I sat down at once and wrote a tale about a mummy on the ghastliest and most approved Christmas number pattern.

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