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ghastliness
noun as in atrociousness
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UPDATE: As of this writing, news of the utmost ghastliness has emerged from the Brazil camp.
The ghastliness of our feelings, thought the Countess, never can be told.
One of the only features these staples of the supernatural share is their ghastliness.
When the ship's discoverers boarded her, their eyes were greeted by a sight whose ghastliness filled them with a numbing horror.
Every mark had it, and had it increasingly—this indistinct fiery tinge that painted a new touch of ghastliness into the picture.
Cossiers seemed to revel in the ghastliness of the scene, but the workmanship was certainly of a very high order.
The ghastliness of this thought, brought home so utterly, made him writhe, and grasp the railings as if he would have bent them.
Serena's face was pale to ghastliness; her form shook perceptibly, her eyes scintillated.
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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ghastliness, such as: atrocity, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, gruesomeness, and horridness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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