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US
/ˈɡæstɫi/
]
[ UK /ɡˈɑːstli/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɑːstli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
the grim task of burying the victims
macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
macabre tortures conceived by madmen
the grim aftermath of the bombing
gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
ghastly wounds
a grisly murder -
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
ghastly shrieks
a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
How To Use ghastly In A Sentence
- Autumn term means more ghastly murder. Times, Sunday Times
- Forsooth, I knew not you had so much of ingenious art; algates, the toy is somewhat ghastly. The Last of the Barons — Volume 06
- He explained that poetry had caught an infection from the rest of the ghastly, pustular commercial world. Times, Sunday Times
- She woke up in the middle of a ghastly nightmare.
- At a giveaway price, it went to a development company who created what is now the Broadgate centre, a fairly ghastly set of offices with a few shops thrown in.
- Far removed from this conception is the condition of the many who have no "casa," but only ghastly walls within which the most intimate acts of life are exposed upon the pillory. The Montessori Method
- Burning with fever, Butler hallucinated about China, reliving the ghastly trek from Tientsin and the rape of Peking. Devil Dog
- What happened in the three months between Stalin's December announcement and his statement in March 1930 that 58 per cent of peasant households had been collectivized was ghastly.
- And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
- With rumors of hauntings and ghosts, Kingdom Hospital has a ghastly standing in the community.
