ghastly
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He later describes his work as “cleansing the world of an ancient evil,” and is haunted by a ghastly vision of a spirit he encountered abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
Target’s collection, on the other hand, is one of the most ghastly sartorial abominations ever made, let alone sold for real money.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2026
The commissioner described Panorama's footage, obtained by secret filming, as "vile to watch", calling the officers involved "ghastly, ghastly individuals".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
She and her husband both came from Japan, and her long aristocratic face was always a ghastly white.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
Not least because, given various developing news stories relating to our hosts, the tournament has rather ghastlier noises-off than usual.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
Now investigators believe that both versions have a piece of the even ghastlier truth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never saw ghastlier fear on human cheeks.
From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Floating logs, huge trees, acres of tangled greenery, the sweepings of a hundred miles of jungle, covered its surface with other and ghastlier trove.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
There’s a darkly funny early shot of Rudolf riding a horse from his yard up to the gates of Auschwitz, completing the world’s shortest, ghastliest commute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Historian Timothy Snyder has defined Ukraine and its Eastern European vicinity as the Bloodlands, the most violent frontier of the ghastliest era in human history.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
They made it to the Super Bowl in 2014, only to have the ghastliest ending in football history against the Patriots.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
It was that ghastliest of hours — 3 a.m. — bedtime a distant memory and daylight an eternity away.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
This pretence, much favoured by the lady-visitors, led to the ghastliest absurdities.
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
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