(superl.) Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
(superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
(adv.) In a ghastly manner; hideously.
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.
Grim
Definition:
(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
(4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
(6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
(7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
(10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
(13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
(14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
(15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
(16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
(18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
(19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.