What's the difference between chast and ghast?

Chast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) to chasten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
  • (2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
  • (3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
  • (4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
  • (5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
  • (6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
  • (7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
  • (8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
  • (9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
  • (10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
  • (11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
  • (12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
  • (13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
  • (14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
  • (15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
  • (16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
  • (17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
  • (18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
  • (19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
  • (20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.

Ghast


Definition:

  • (a.) To strike aghast; to affright.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coming shortly after the regime's successful third nuclear weapons test, Rodman's public declaration that he was Kim's "friend for life ", and the young premier's ability to parade his western visitors on state media, angered critics who argued that the country's ghastly poverty and brutal human rights violations were inadequately reflected.
  • (2) Since the banking crash of 2008 – "a ghastly political situation as well as a financial problem because it was so much to do with greed" – over a third of the practice's new work is in the far east.
  • (3) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
  • (4) What’s happened is ghastly but we’ve got to ask ourselves some big questions,” he said.
  • (5) During a prolific career stretching back almost half a century, the Swedish author Henning Mankell, best known for his Wallander series, has produced several million words, many of them dealing with ghastly crimes.
  • (6) When I am asked who I consider a role model (another ghastly word), Shirley usually comes to mind.
  • (7) The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing.
  • (8) But the most ghastly sketch and one I still find terribly funny was The Liver Donor .
  • (9) Hare accused the trend spotters of the early 21st century of lining up eagerly to pretend the controversy which raged around Look Back In Anger was "some kind of ghastly mistake".
  • (10) Not only have the people spoken and won, but the old administration, Obama and all those ghastly people, are out and the Trump people are in,” he said.
  • (11) One of the more brilliant concerns a weekend at the home of a ghastly senior professor.
  • (12) "Interviewing the rapists was ghastly," she says, "but the worst moment was when they left.
  • (13) Economies may fail, banking systems may collapse, but we'll always have Davos , late capitalism's annual attempt to recreate the experience of what it would be like to spend eternity in hell's most ghastly private members' club.
  • (14) The cost of inaction or further delaying our response is too ghastly to contemplate,” said David Phiri, subregional coordinator for Southern Africa at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
  • (15) At least the champions did not totally crumple but ultimately it was a futile exercise, delaying their first spell of prolonged pressure until Sergio Agüero had scored twice, Yaya Touré had pinched another and Nasri had rounded off a ghastly five-minute spell for United at the start of the second half when David de Gea was beaten twice in quick succession.
  • (16) The World Trade Organisation has had a truly ghastly week, the sort that would make governments or cabinet ministers resign.
  • (17) But back in the General Staff's Versailles-like HQ, among the columns, frescos and sweeping staircases, the Fragonards and the Bouchers on the walls and the marble floors underfoot, the aristocrats and the officer class – their faces mean, smug, scarred or fat – trade ghastly obscenities about acceptable death tolls and national honour, their moral universe and patterns of thought throttled by protocol, precedent, military codes and banal social etiquette.
  • (18) The main problem is that Hague recommended including 15 Polish MEPs from the Law and Justice party, which has absorbed the even more extreme nationalist League of Polish Families (described on the BBC's Today Programme by Poland's chief rabbi as "beyond the pale" because of their anti-Semitism) and the ghastly League of Self-Defence.
  • (19) In May 2002, when dissident soldiers mutinied against their commanders in the central city of Kisangani, Monuc troops did almost nothing as those commanders (including Laurent Nkunda) oversaw the killing of at least 80 civilians and a ghastly bout of rape.
  • (20) Stafford Smith said: "Shaker was absolutely thrilled with the letter from Hague, it shows how a certain amount of personal commitment by someone in power can help someone who has been downtrodden in such a ghastly way.

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