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Meanings of ghastly in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sick"
Examples for "sick"
1
The effect of the sudden presence in the sick-room was most marked.
2
By personal contact of the sick with the well, especially in kissing.
3
The sick were healed in answer to his prayer of simple faith.
4
He took particular interest in the sick, crippled and poorly nourished children.
5
Many were sick; more were discontented; and all longed wearily for land.
1
It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
2
The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
3
Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
4
They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
5
This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
1
Conditions at Mountjoy and Cork prisons were said to be particularly gruesome.
2
Every part of the Golden State Killer's case is gruesome and fascinating.
3
The light from the lamp without flickered on it in gruesome sportiveness.
4
The gruesome case involves a disturbing online video that depicts the crime.
5
A passer-by came across the gruesome scene and immediately alerted the authorities.
1
The day's grisly work had suddenly lost its power over his appetite.
2
When Musa's grisly work is done, I send slaves scurrying for water.
3
On the other hand, the grisly subject matter is hardly multiplex fare.
4
Most were grisly but without the connection of the missing body parts.
5
It is the latest grisly chapter for Britain's once mighty steel industry.
1
Passing the second large oil pump, I made yet another macabre discovery.
2
Kevin Yates' sporting future has suddenly become a macabre game of Cluedo.
3
I know nothing of those heroes of macabre fact masquerading as fiction.
4
Chance makes an unusual request before embarking on a macabre handiwork project.
5
Though she was still human, technically, she'd been given their macabre thirst.
Usage of ghastly in English
1
Of all the units operating in that ghastly Sector, the 17th H.L.I.
2
IRAQ: Somewhere in Iraq a grim and ghastly auction is taking place.
3
The ferocious purpose in the black eyes faded to a ghastly terror.
4
The Sermon on the Mount makes the morality of the nations ghastly.
5
The sand was stained with brownish blood patches; the wounds were ghastly.
6
She looked up in his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.
7
Lost in the ghastly realms of native ghostlore, he ignored the American.
8
Writer compares the present to the ghastly miscalculations of World War I.
9
The lips were drawn back, displaying the teeth in a ghastly smile.
10
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
11
He was ghastly white; his head had fallen back against the bed.
12
Did we really want to uncover the reason for this ghastly quilt?
13
All this has members of his own party calling him ghastly names.
14
The face, lying full in the moonlight, was of a ghastly pallor.
15
It was ghastly down here; for everywhere they came across dead sheep.
16
It was a grim humor and sometimes ghastly; but it satisfied Tarzan.
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Ghastly through the time
Ghastly across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common