[
US
/ˈɡuɫɪʃ/
]
[ UK /ɡˈuːlɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈuːlɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
suggesting the horror of death and decay
morbid details
How To Use ghoulish In A Sentence
- This ghoulish history is irrelevant to Harley riders - their aim is to be photographed by the huge sign at company HQ.
- In a ghoulish gallery, Bart hosts three bloodcurdling tales of Halloween horror.
- Now she set the figure on a pedestal, a blank-faced, bulgy-eyed little goat gazing into space, its wide stubby tail sweeping over its back while it grasped a large baseball in its hand; a sort of ghoulish beauty now emanated from the figure. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
- A ghoulish curiosity set in. Times, Sunday Times
- Hats, bats and wands were created in the art department, while ghoulish recipes were cooked up in the kitchen.
- He hated the phrase “student body,” for instance, insisting that “studentry” was both clearer and without the ghoulish connotations he saw in the former term. On writing by stephen king
- It isn't just ghoulish curiosity that makes these stories appealing. The Times Literary Supplement
- Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
- Up to now they have scraped a living by producing ghoulish dolls.
- Events get off to a ghoulish start as a pair of grave robbers rendezvous in a dark alley to transfer a freshly stolen body from one car to the other.