ghastliness
Example Sentences
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Yet even with the grimness and ghastliness of war, gestures of hope and kindness are shining brightly for refugees who are crossing the border into these countries.
From Fox News ● Mar. 7, 2022
An outbreak of dysentery then compounded the ghastliness of the voyage.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2021
As if to underscore the ghastliness of inaction, both Zama and his almost-lover have experiences of watching, immobilized, as a large and likely poisonous spider crawls across a sleeping person’s face.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Like the proverbial frogs in pots of simmering water, filmgoers have tolerated escalating stakes in cinematic ghastliness at least since 1960, when Alfred Hitchcock created the first slasher film with “Psycho.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2015
For my seventeen-year-old brother, romance was an entirely new experience and a wonderful diversion from the ghastliness of ghetto life.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
