ghastly
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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
Target’s collection, on the other hand, is one of the most ghastly sartorial abominations ever made, let alone sold for real money.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
Messrs. Hanke and Walker write that the fiscal picture is far worse even than it appears on the ghastly federal balance sheet:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
David Wall, who has lived on the street for 44 years, said the piles of dumped black bags had contained dirty nappies, food waste and even a dead rat which caused a ghastly smell.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
But the shadow of horror wheeled and returned, passing lower now, right above them, sweeping the fen-reek with its ghastly wings.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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