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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
- After all, this is a man so potty and unfathomably wealthy that he can walk into a shop stocking ghastly, ugly, ridiculously pricy ornaments and already own most of them.
- Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
- 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.
