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Ghastly
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1. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Example Sentences:'ghastly wounds''the grim aftermath of the bombing''the grim task of burying the victims''a grisly murder''gruesome evidence of human sacrifice''macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages''macabre tortures conceived by madmen'
2. charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Example Sentences:'a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones''ghastly shrieks''the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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Ghastly
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