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Meanings of ghastly smile in English

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Usage of ghastly smile in English
1
The lips were drawn back, displaying the teeth in a ghastly smile.
The Well of Saint Clare
2
A ghastly smile passed across the Captain's lips, and that was all.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
3
He gave me a ghastly smile, and then his face went slack.
The red pyramid
4
The judge turned towards the boy with a ghastly smile of enforced recognition.
What's Bred in the Bone
5
David saw there was no escape; he smiled a ghastly smile.
Brother Jacob
6
He was agitated, and grinned a ghastly smile at the rabble.
Venetia
7
His opponent evinced his satisfaction at this humane proposal by a ghastly smile.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
8
The centenarian greeted Euphrasia with a ghastly smile, receiving her honeyed words in reply.
The Magic Skin
9
His face was fearfully drawn and his lips were frozen in a ghastly smile.
Shallow Soil
10
At this Cousin Henry could only affect a ghastly smile.
Cousin Henry
11
The other man gulped, steadied himself with an effort, and gave a ghastly smile.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917
12
It would have been disastrous. He smiled his ghastly smile.
Red inferno: 1945
13
Lord Vargrave smiled a ghastly smile, but made no answer.
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 11
14
He turned to me, quite calm, with a ghastly smile.
Options
15
He, failed to observe the flicker of a ghastly smile on his governor's lips.
Victory: An Island Tale
16
The former boatswain's mate smiled a ghastly smile, his eyes glowing bright like coals.
The Submarine Boys on Duty / Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat
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Ghastly smile through the time
Ghastly smile across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common