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Superlative for causing severe fear or terror
“Lovecraft's oeuvre is replete with ghastly monsters and terrifying perversions of nature.”
Superlative for having an ugly or frightening appearance
“The air behind the orcs rippled, and the blur resolved into a hideous, misshapen creature, a ghastly combination of ape and wolf.”
Superlative for related to, or suggestive of, ghosts, spirits, or the supernatural
“Hovering over it like a ghastly apparition is a demoniac figure playing the lute.”
Superlative for very objectionable, bad or unpleasant
“After a ghastly meal full of endangered animals and several threatening remarks from Santa, the cousins realize that the man in the red suit is not Santa at all.”
Superlative for lamentably bad or poor in quality or standard
“And for all of this ghastly workmanship, Weisel had overcharged Fred Tolliver by nine thousand dollars.”
Superlative for causing distress, dread or alarm
“We talked at dinner of theatrical matters to take our minds off the ghastly news that the country was on the verge of collapse.”
Superlative for significant or extreme in degree or intensity
“Carefully, I stood up and felt a ghastly pain radiating through my face and leg.”
Superlative for harsh or inhospitable in nature, especially of an environment or conditions
“We braved the ghastly conditions to make it to the summit of the mountain.”
Superlative for deserving censure or condemnation
“Nor did they have a clue who could have committed the ghastly crime.”
Superlative for extremely pale, especially of a deathly white
“His black hair was drawn up in thick spikes, and he had a sallow face which was a ghastly white.”
Superlative for extremely ill or unwell
“She had sobered up but she felt ghastly.”
Superlative for inflicting suffering onto others without conscience
Superlative for inhumanly or outrageously evil or immorally wrong
Superlative for disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying
Superlative for very thin or bony in physique
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