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Meanings of ghastliness in inglés

The quality of being ghastly.

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Examples for "grimness"
Examples for "grimness"
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The wretchedness and grimness of it all smote him to the heart.
The Stillwater Tragedy
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Demarest won't be the same without your mesomorphic grimness, he said matter-of-factly.
The brief wondrous life of oscar wao
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One way or the other, he added, a grimness to his tone.
The devil's touch
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Sun-bright Ganymede holds a different kind of grimness, just as chillingly divine.
Seven Surrenders
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The grimness went out of his frown, the reluctance from his attitude.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
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Some of the images do come alive, if only because of their gruesomeness.
The Irish Times
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Mikhail even enjoyed Shakespeare, particularly the gruesomeness and ghosts of Hamlet.
The Wolf’s Hour
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The smiling, bright, top part of it-andthe hidden gruesomeness underneath.
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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Also there was a certain gruesomeness in the German reportage.
The Guardian
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There followed a scene savage and repulsive in its gruesomeness.
Best Russian Short Stories
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Beyond the window, the lightning flashed with an awful luridness upon the rushing hail.
The Way of an Eagle
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The luridness of war was over everything.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. / The...
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The clinical mood of the video is intentional, in order to remove anything associated with luridness or pornography.
Ebony
Usage of ghastliness in inglés
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But there was a ghastliness in the whole thing which frightened her.
The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love
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Removed from harrowing scenes of ghastliness and distress, the court made merry.
Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II
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She drained its contents, but the ghastliness of her appearance remained unchanged.
Peter Ruff and the Double Four
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So it seemed to me then, before I had seen greater ghastliness.
The Soul of the War
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She got no further, however, for she observed the ghastliness of Helene's face.
A Love Episode
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Even a witch should take care to not overdo her ghastliness.
A nameless witch
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It was ultradevilish; both by design and accident-conceivedand calculated ghastliness, peculiar to India.
Told in the East
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It gave her the ghastliness of a dead man's bride.
Twice-Told Tales
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Two ineradicable defects,' said Knight, there being a faint ghastliness discernible in his laugh.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Why can't you look its ghastliness bravely in the face?
Septimus
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Perhaps it was this peculiarity that invested him with a species of ghastliness and awe.
Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories
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There was an atmosphere of cheerlessness that a half-blackened Welsbach mantle turned into positive ghastliness.
The Poisoned Pen
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His countenance was pale even to ghastliness, and his deep-set eyes glared with unnatural luster.
The Lock and Key Library: The most interesting stories of all na...
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Her eyes were starting from their sockets, her lips gasping wide, her visage ghastliness itself.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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And as he spoke, Dick looked at him with a new ghastliness on his face.
Viviette
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Then he thought of his little daughter-hisdaughter!-andthe ghastliness of his supposition overpowered him.
An Outcast of the Islands
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