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.
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.
Pro-life advocates offer a seductive argument: Whatever you think about abortion in general, partial-birth abortion is just too ghastly to permit.
Now, five years after its author's demise, it has re-emerged as Kinski Uncut . Despite the unfortunate change of name, this ghastly and hypnotic memoir lives up to its long-festering legend.
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.