What's the difference between ghostly and hideous?

Ghostly


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to apparitions.
  • (adv.) Spiritually; mystically.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (2) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (3) Haemoglobin-free human erythrocyte ghosts that were prepared in the presence of EDTA and were then exposed to Ca2+ showed a substantial loss of phosphatidylinositol phosphate and phosphatidylinositol diphosphate, measured either chemically or by loss of 32P from the lipids of prelabelled membranes.
  • (4) Erythrocyte ghost membrane fluidity and phospholipid linoleate were significantly increased when higher levels of polyunsaturated fats were fed to healthy, free living, premenopausal women.
  • (5) The Triton ghosts contracted immediately upon addition of ATP.
  • (6) Resealed erythrocyte ghosts (carrier erythrocytes) are potential in vivo carriers for exogenous enzymes or drugs, but data on carrier erythrocyte survival and clearance rate in humans are not available.
  • (7) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
  • (8) The reaction sequence leading from EAC1-9 to ghosts can be summarized as follows: formula: (see text).
  • (9) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
  • (10) Nevertheless, the band 3 population solubilized by Triton X-100 from prelabeled ghosts was as well phosphorylated as the population of band 3 retained by the skeletons.
  • (11) In addition to these effects, ghosts exposed to MC540 and light underwent lipid peroxidation.
  • (12) These findings provide ultrastructural correlates of the electrophysiological changes produced by glycerol treatment of the closer muscle of the ghost crab (Papir, 1973), namely, interference with excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling.
  • (13) This ambiguity was resolved by using resealed ghosts, which are unable to incorporate oleic acid into phospholipids.
  • (14) The pulse microwave radiation has been shown to increase the fluorescence intensity of 2-toluidinonaphthanene-6-sulfonate (2,6-TNS) and 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (1,8-ANS) built-in membranes of erythrocyte ghosts.
  • (15) Although China has so far refused to enable dialogue between our leaders, I sincerely hope that it will come forward, rather than keep invoking the ghost of militarism of seven decades ago, which no longer exists."
  • (16) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
  • (17) The FBI has just released a trove of documents , videos and pictures relating to its so-called Ghost Stories investigation into the activities of 10 Russian spies who the agency monitored for more than a decade.
  • (18) "A lot of the patients had moved and were genuine ghosts, and of course the practice shouldn't be paid for patients who don't exist, but a lot of the patients do exist and the patients who don't use the service subsidise those who do."
  • (19) The chemical asymmetry of the transporter was investigated by studying the effects of p-chloromercuriphenyl sulphonate (PCMBS) on uridine transport and high-affinity NBMPR binding in inside-out and right-side-out membrane vesicles, unsealed erythrocyte ghosts and intact cells.
  • (20) It was shown that when the ;ghosts' of the microsomal vesicles were used as a specific template extra cytochrome b(5) and NADH-specific flavoprotein were incorporated into them, but cytochrome P-450 and NADPH-specific flavoprotein were not incorporated into the membrane.

Hideous


Definition:

  • (a.) Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
  • (a.) Distressing or offensive to the ear; exciting terror or dismay; as, a hideous noise.
  • (a.) Hateful; shocking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hideously unfair council tax system would be replaced by land value taxation , through which everyone would benefit from the speculative gains now monopolised by a few.
  • (2) A hideous passing defense, meanwhile, has been upgraded hugely by the addition of cornerback Darrelle Revis.
  • (3) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
  • (4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
  • (5) Next to these disasters, the odd jostle to climb on to a refrigerated lorry in Calais, which recently was depicted as a hideous national crisis, is a minor issue.
  • (6) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
  • (7) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
  • (8) Quite right too, purists would say: Hinkley Point is already hideously expensive.
  • (9) He played in clubs and sent demo tapes to music producers, but met with rejection: "They would listen to them for 15 seconds and say 'Hideous!
  • (10) Abbott said at the time the pictures were another example of the “hideous atrocities” such groups were capable of.
  • (11) We thought it could be funny to combine the rural old man stereotype we get abroad with the hideous pop culture emphases we have on the language at home and to put Pól, Micheál and Síle in a world where they don't belong.
  • (12) She wrote in an article for the Independent that she had been pursued by online trolls and called an “aggressive feminist” with a “hideous personality”.
  • (13) Like a hideous old monster of myth, programmed only to protect itself, FPTP has confounded its enemies by flattering them, sweet-talking them, and making them into fools.
  • (14) The bike is hideous, a vast contraption with an illuminated panel that flashes your heart-rate at you.
  • (15) When Argos closes (and, God willing, it will, because what we're witnessing now is a recession-backed, online-fuelled evisceration of the high street too hideous for even Mary Portas to contemplate), how I'll laugh.
  • (16) The hospital that Orwell described in How the Poor Die was a place of hideous cruelty because the staff cared nothing for the patients.
  • (17) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
  • (18) He adds: "In Australia's big cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still a hideous drain on the ­public purse.
  • (19) One part of the rule is correct: it's odd to use "that" with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in "The pair of shoes, that cost £5,000, was hideous."
  • (20) A nonrestrictive relative clause is set off by commas, dashes or parentheses, as in "The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous."