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synonyms for ghastly
- appalling
- awful
- frightening
- frightful
- ghostly
- ghoulish
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- lurid
- macabre
- shocking
- sickening
- terrible
- terrifying
- unpleasant
- abhorrent
- anemic
- ashen
- bloodless
- cadaverous
- corpselike
- deathlike
- dim
- disgusting
- faint
- funereal
- haggard
- livid
- loathsome
- mortuary
- nauseating
- offensive
- pallid
- repellent
- repulsive
- sepulchral
- spectral
- supernatural
- uncanny
- unearthly
- unnatural
- wan
- weak
- wraithlike
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How to use ghastly in a sentence
Eventually overcome by his ghastly fascination, Leontius runs toward the corpses and wails, “Look, you damned wretches, take your fill of the fair sight!”
Lyrics on It’s Dark and Hell is Hot made many listeners squirm, especially the ghastly “X-Is Coming,” in which he adapts Freddie Krueger’s nursery rhyme from A Nightmare On Elm Street.
How DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot Changed the Course of Hip-Hop Forever | Andrew R. Chow | April 9, 2021 | TimeWhile touring China in 1986, he described parts of Beijing as “ghastly” and joked with a British student that he would end up “slitty-eyed” if he stayed too long.
Prince Philip, royal consort to Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 99 | Adrian Higgins | April 9, 2021 | Washington Post
Most of Washington’s seasons under Snyder blend together, a ghastly mush of failed quarterbacks, free agent busts and general ineptitude.
Ranking Washington football seasons in the Daniel Snyder era from least to most fun | Scott Allen | January 14, 2021 | Washington PostWe have long known that the natural world is replete with grisly cases of predation, parasitism, a universe of ghastly horrors all generated by natural selection and unleavened by the slightest ethical qualms on the part of perpetrators.
Just Because It’s Natural Doesn’t Mean It’s Good - Issue 89: The Dark Side | David P. Barash | August 19, 2020 | NautilusThe nation can either accept his ideas or risk ghastly consequences.
‘America in Retreat’: Why Neo-Isolationism Exploded Under Obama and What We Can Do About It | James Kirchick | December 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent.
Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.
Inside ‘Orange Is the New Black’ S2, Eps. 6-12: About That Shocking Incest Scene | Kevin Fallon, Marlow Stern | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike Carina, she remembers a ghastly scene once the American soldiers withdrew.
Remembering the Fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s Mass ‘Boat People’ Exodus | Katie Baker | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.
A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France | Tracy McNicoll | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodIn a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.
The Red Year | Louis TracyNative rumors had brought the news of the massacre at Cawnpore, though the ghastly tragedy of the Well was yet to come.
The Red Year | Louis TracyBut the simulacra of certain ghastly events that took place under that roof in past days still continue.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodHe could not fail to note the different effects he and his cousin produced in her—the ghastly difference.
The Wave | Algernon Blackwood
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