Words similar to ghastly

Example sentences for: ghastly

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Comedian Phil Hartman's killing hasn't made it into the supermarket tabs yet, but the rest of the down-market press have covered the ghastly events.
Pro-life advocates offer a seductive argument: Whatever you think about abortion in general, partial-birth abortion is just too ghastly to permit.
David Fincher's Seven thrust Walker's worldview into your viscera; I can still recall that film's gun battle, set in a long corridor, with its slingshot angles and bullets that seemed to explode beside your head, and the ghastly sight, both riveting and repellent, of a partially flayed, obese corpse, its milky white blubber framing intestines that looked like blue balloons.
3. During a visit in 1986, he said Peking was "ghastly" and told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
When she successfully put land mines on the world's agenda, she didn't do it by going to the United Nations or 10 Downing St., but to the places where the mines had done their ghastly damage.