ghastly
Example Sentences
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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
Messrs. Hanke and Walker write that the fiscal picture is far worse even than it appears on the ghastly federal balance sheet:
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
"Surely part of the definition of being in a free society is people say ghastly things, offensive things, awful things, ugly things, and we don't sweep them under the carpet," he has said.
From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025
Some conservative backlash seems to come from the idea that Kirk’s page should double as an online memorial, smoothing away his edges out of respect for the ghastly way he died.
From Slate • Sep. 17, 2025
I soldiered on, breathing through my pulled-up shirt and keeping away from the walls and any other ghastly surprises they might’ve harbored.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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