Definition of Ghastly

Ghastly

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

In a ghastly manner; hideously.

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Ghastly Quotations

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Willa Cather

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
Bill Bruford

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
Mira Sorvino

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
Jerry Pournelle

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
Rod Stewart

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Patrick Macnee

But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
Liam Fox

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Alan Patrick Herbert

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
Richard J. Needham

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Ghastly Translations

ghastly in Afrikaans is onaangenaam
ghastly in Dutch is afgrijselijk
ghastly in French is horrible, repoussant, abominable
ghastly in Italian is abominevole
ghastly in Norwegian is grufull, uhyggelig, likblek

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