(n.) An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Essebsi has dismissed the word “taghaoul” (power grab) that the Marzouki camp has deployed, evoking the ogre (“ghoul”) of north African Berber and Arab legend.
(2) When Downing Street's ghouls come to inspect his wounds over the weekend, he seems likely to survive.
(3) Some are standard cemeteries, some are said to be a stomping ground for ghosts and ghouls – and, around the turn of the century, a number of them played host to Emma Stone .
(4) By failing to confront our ghouls – and their tabloid harpies – we merely let them haunt us again.
(5) Updated at 1.12am BST 1.10am BST Email It's that time of the year when ghosts, demons, witches and ghouls come out to play, and I'm not talking about Halloween.
(6) Yet now, with the Conservatives in the grip of their most awful ghouls, we have an opportunity without precedent to lay our own fears to rest.
(7) Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.
(8) These are the ghouls swirling around this Christmas.
(9) The cheapest toys on the main list are the Monster High range of Ghouls Rule dolls, retailing at £22.99 each (£17.99 at Smyths Toys).
(10) The top 13 in full Cabbage Patch Kids, JAKKS Pacific, RRP £29.99 Furby, Hasbro, RRP £59.99 InnoTab 2, Vtech, RRP £84.99 Jake and the Neverland Pirates – Pirate Ship Bucky, Mattel, RRP £49.99 LeapPad 2, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £89.99 Lego Friends: Olivia's House, Lego, RRP £69.99 Lego The Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria, Lego, £68.99 Mike the Knight's Deluxe Glendragon Playset, Character Options, £29.99 Monster High Ghouls Rule Dolls, Mattel, RRP £22.99 My Moshi Home, Vivid Imaginations, RRP £39.99 Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Twister Dance, Hasbro, RRP £26.99 Web Shooting Spider-Man, Hasbro, RRP £34.99
(11) The Daily Telegraph has already responded to the semblance of a climate policy with a full front page picture of a masked ghoul, screaming “Horror Show”, because a “nightmare” was returning.
(12) In the fudge shop on the front, you can buy chocolate coffins, and there is of course the Dracula Experience , where for a few pounds you can creep through labyrinthine pitch-black passages and be scared out of your skin by students earning holiday cash dressed up as ghouls and revenants.
(13) All those unknown, bleary faces huddled in the dark: old men shrouded in blankets, mothers cradling wailing babies - it was a scene from one of those witches and ghouls fairytales she found so terrifying.
Ghoulish
Definition:
(a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Example Sentences:
(1) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
(2) 5.02pm BST PS: one last line from Dublin, from Henry McDonald: There was some pre-Hallowe'en ghoulish reaction to one aspect of the budget cuts from Fianna Fail, the main opposition party in Ireland .
(3) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(4) On a couple of the paintings she has added little bright splashes of MRI brain scans, the slices of frontal lobe and cerebellum abstracting into ghoulish faces.
(5) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
(6) Underneath its ghoulish milieu, Penny Dreadful throbs with a big, bruised heart and a baroque web of emotional nuance.
(7) But the true prize in this slightly ghoulish quest is not quite as easy to find.
(8) The soldiers also took ghoulish pictures of themselves with dead combatants.
(9) The article sparked an angry reaction on Twitter with South Africans accusing the media of ghoulish behaviour.
(10) His painting Anxiety depicts exactly the same view of the Oslofjord, but this time an entire crowd of ghoulish creatures walk bleakly towards us: their faces have the same dehumanised, spectral futility as those of the people he painted on Karl Johann street.
(11) He devoted assiduous attention to immigration, approvingly quoting the ghoulish ex-minister Phil Woolas , and there was an interesting peroration about tuition fees.
(12) That he was the ghoulish architect of the Iraq tragedy is only the most obvious error in karmic accounting.
(13) Worse still, when things get sticky, they reach for the ghoulish stereotypes that spread fear through Daily Mail-land: benefit scroungers, feral youths, problem families.
(14) Before even sighting the familiar city’s skyline, which had become in my mind ghoulish, I recognized an eatery my husband and I visited one evening years ago right across the street.
(15) At the time, Rostow developed an almost ghoulish enthusiasm for flip-charts detailing the "body count" on which his policies relied, an attitude wildly at variance with his gentler virtues.
(16) It’s stereotyping.” Josh Ghoulish (@thejoshl) Here I thought Ben Affleck couldn't be any cooler and then he slams Bill Maher's gross generalizations of Islam while promoting GONE GIRL.
(17) It is regrettable that just a week after Brazil's huge wave of social protest, our focus is on these ghoulish but random acts of rural violence, rather than the more significant political earthquake that has occurred.
(18) I'm sure we all agree there's nothing "ghoulish" whatsoever about eagerly imagining the hypothetical death of someone you've marked out as a potential cadaver on account of your ill-informed presumptions about their lifestyle.
(19) I am not going to pretend that I looked at the online Muamba images with the pure dispassion of a cultural commentator: there is a prurient, ghoulish human instinct to know what the worst moments of life might look like.
(20) These houses could be prize exhibits in a ghoulish museum of old Whitehall policy failures.