ghastly
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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
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
Meanwhile, the sumptuous imagery and amiable pacing of “Wuthering Heights” trounce del Toro’s ghastly slog of a film.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
Those usual characteristics of the Brisbane pitch, namely pace and bounce, should suit England's battery of pace bowlers, as they did in the first innings in Perth before things took a ghastly turn.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025
He thought perhaps she was dozing off; it had to be why she was not talking about somebody’s ghastly dress or the unimaginative hors d’oeuvres that had been served.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
Yet ghastlier, yet more wonderful, A crab upon a spider rides, Perched on a goose's neck a skull In scarlet cap revolving glides.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
Its unmeaningness was ghastly, and the ghastlier for the greatness of its bald and lifeless stare.
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Historian Timothy Snyder has defined Ukraine and its Eastern European vicinity as the Bloodlands, the most violent frontier of the ghastliest era in human history.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
The ghastliest terrors of the grave are sweetness to me, if I may but see him once—my dear dead love!
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
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