Words similar to ghastly

Example sentences for: ghastly

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I do not think we can do anything in Chechnya, ghastly as is the Russian behavior.
Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.
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.
The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (a k a the Work Opportunity Tax Credit) has been a ghastly disappointment ever since it was enacted in 1978.
Besides Bening, the film's chief interest is the unmatched intensity that Jordan brings to her visions, which are both lyrical and ghastly, and so frightening that it's hard to imagine how the movie can deliver a demon worthy of them.