ghastly
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appalling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
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Once, these ghastly people made for some mordant satire. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "Succession Is Better Than Ever," 11 Aug. 2019 When Assad deployed these ghastly armaments against civilians in a suburb of Damascus in 2013, however, the punitive measures never materialized. — Brian Stewart, National Review, "For Sama: A Chronicle of the Syrian Tragedy," 10 Aug. 2019 Call him Harry Bosch but in Lebanon, a ghastly place at the time. — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, "Review: A love note to Beirut and a lament for war — Rawi Hage’s latest is a hell of a story," 20 July 2019 Mark Melancon has contributed some but owns a ghastly WHIP (1.63) and has surrendered too many big hits to consider a role befitting his salary. — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, "Giants midseason analysis: Farm system trending up, core struggling," 11 July 2019 Epic dredging and landfilling followed, then eventually a ghastly sprawl of asphalt. — Dan Zak, Washington Post, "The Democratic debate is being held at ‘ground zero’ for the threat of rising seas. Can the climate candidate get a word in edgewise?," 27 June 2019 Washington remains as dangerous as ever, even after a ghastly start. — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, "Lucas Giolito Is Living Up to His Top Prospect Billing," 11 June 2019 But the fact that plastic goes to places untouched by humans and leaves such a ghastly footprint of our plastics obsession is pretty terrifying. — Laura Parker, National Geographic, "Beach cleanups are missing millions of pieces of plastic," 16 May 2019 Napoleon, a shy, surly, solitary boy with a ghastly Corsican accent and floppy spaniel’s sidelocks, was unhappy among the self-confident aristocratic cadets, who teased him about his humble origins. — Adam Zamoyski, The New York Review of Books, "An Ordinary Man," 4 Apr. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ghastly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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