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Meanings of ghastly in inglés

Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror.

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Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.

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Usage of ghastly in inglés
1
Of all the units operating in that ghastly Sector, the 17th H.L.I.
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Comm...
2
IRAQ: Somewhere in Iraq a grim and ghastly auction is taking place.
The Irish Times
3
The ferocious purpose in the black eyes faded to a ghastly terror.
The Heart of Unaga
4
The Sermon on the Mount makes the morality of the nations ghastly.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
5
The sand was stained with brownish blood patches; the wounds were ghastly.
The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
6
She looked up in his face in fear at its ghastly whiteness.
Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
7
Lost in the ghastly realms of native ghostlore, he ignored the American.
Terry / A Tale of the Hill People
8
Writer compares the present to the ghastly miscalculations of World War I.
The new yorker
9
The lips were drawn back, displaying the teeth in a ghastly smile.
The Well of Saint Clare
10
The hospitals had become ghastly charnel houses; starvation was at its worst.
The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot
11
He was ghastly white; his head had fallen back against the bed.
The Flight of the Shadow
12
Did we really want to uncover the reason for this ghastly quilt?
Shadow of an angel
13
All this has members of his own party calling him ghastly names.
Wired
14
The face, lying full in the moonlight, was of a ghastly pallor.
A Man Four-Square
15
It was ghastly down here; for everywhere they came across dead sheep.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
16
It was a grim humor and sometimes ghastly; but it satisfied Tarzan.
Tarzan the Untamed
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
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