ghastly
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None of this could keep the wedding, reported the Daily Mail, from being “quite ghastly and tacky.”
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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
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
"Really ghastly," says Dame Margaret Beckett, who was number two under John Smith in the 1990s.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or hear.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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
For the first time in my life I knew hunger, and it is a fearsome thing, but thou—a shade from Amenti could not be ghastlier.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth
The yellow sun makes ghastlier still the sight Of painted corpses, staring in its light.
From Custer, and Other Poems. by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
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
“One of the ghastliest mistakes in this trivial and laborious world.”
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
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