ghastly
Use Ghastly in a sentence
adjective
1.
shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
2.
resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
3.
terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.
adverb
4.
Also, ghast·li·ly, ghast·i·ly. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
5.
with a deathlike quality.
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Word Origin & History
ghastly
c.1300, from O.E. gæstan "to torment, frighten" + -lich "-ly." Spelling with gh- developed 16c. from confusion with ghost.
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Example sentences
The name alone evokes dreadful visions of ghastly creatures with horrific fangs and slimy skin.
Some agencies have caved in the past and paid ghastly sums for the rent supplement.
And so a case that from the start had been ghastly to ponder became even messier.
To their horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause.
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