What is "ghastly"

Usage examples of "ghastly".

The conflict, grown beyond the scope of original plans, had become nothing less than a fratricidal war between the young king and the Count of Poitou for the succession to the Angevin empire, a ghastly struggle in which Henry was obliged to take a living share, abetting first one and then the other of his furious sons.

With a redder, more abysmal gleam in his deep dark eyes he told of men and women flayed alive, mutilated and dismembered, of captives howling under tortures so ghastly that even the barbarous Cimmerian grunted.

As for the Nobility, they had been as preoccupied with a violent and ghastly spectacle of a different character: down in Westminster, the Whigs had suddenly begun to ask pointed questions as to what had become of certain Asiento revenues.

They hung motionless from their ghastly perches, the hot sun bleaching their bloated faces.

The Sorcerer Quoron When the bodiless head looked at her, Niamh froze with ghastly horror.

His boteler and his chamberlain--- Sir Lucan and Bedwere--- And many a gash, and ghastly.

Would there be some ghastly bungle that would warn Goldfinger in time?

As they drove across the Square it seemed almost to have been frozen in a cataleptic silence, the bulbous clusters of the street lamps around the Square burned with a hard and barren radiance--a ghastly mocking of life, of metropolitan gaiety, in a desert scene from which all life had by some pestilence or catastrophe of nature been extinguished.

Frequently the faces, and other parts of those who recovered, were disfigured by the ghastly cicatrices of healed ulcers.

Would it come splattering up out of him, some ghastly lung-vomit, ejected, left drooped over the side of the gascraft like some pale blue mass of seaweed, leaving him to gasp and choke and die?

Covertly opening that eye which remained in the heavy shadow, separating the lashes by little more than the width of a hair, he could make out a large room, upholstered and carpeted in green, with green-shaded electroliers above two billiard tables that stood ghastly and bier-like beneath their blanketing covers of white cotton.

Yes, I remember now: spread in a ghastly emulsification across the ceiling of his library.

Any scab worth his yeast knew that those insect vectors were stuffed to bursting with swift and ghastly illnesses, pneumonic plague and necrotizing fasciitis among the friendlier ones.

Instantly a score of others flung themselves upon the prey, and then began a ghastly and disgusting scene.

All I want to do is find the prince and get this ghastly frug off my head!