ghastliness 的 2 个定义
ghast·li·er, ghast·li·est.
- shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
- resembling a ghost, especially in being very pale: a ghastly look to his face.
- terrible; very bad: a ghastly error.
- Also ghast·li·ly, ghast·i·ly. in a ghastly manner; horribly; terribly.
- with a deathlike quality.
ghastliness 近义词
等同于 atrociousness
更多ghastliness例句
- Eventually overcome by his ghastly fascination, Leontius runs toward the corpses and wails, “Look, you damned wretches, take your fill of the fair sight!”
- Lyrics on It’s Dark and Hell is Hot made many listeners squirm, especially the ghastly “X-Is Coming,” in which he adapts Freddie Krueger’s nursery rhyme from A Nightmare On Elm Street.
- While touring China in 1986, he described parts of Beijing as “ghastly” and joked with a British student that he would end up “slitty-eyed” if he stayed too long.
- Most of Washington’s seasons under Snyder blend together, a ghastly mush of failed quarterbacks, free agent busts and general ineptitude.
- We have long known that the natural world is replete with grisly cases of predation, parasitism, a universe of ghastly horrors all generated by natural selection and unleavened by the slightest ethical qualms on the part of perpetrators.
- The nation can either accept his ideas or risk ghastly consequences.
- And so those closest to the ghastly virus remain deaf to hashtags, and silent.
- Watching her drown her sorrows in hooch and then get beat up by Crazy Eyes in the showers was ghastly…but great television.
- Like Carina, she remembers a ghastly scene once the American soldiers withdrew.
- It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.
- The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.
- In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.
- Native rumors had brought the news of the massacre at Cawnpore, though the ghastly tragedy of the Well was yet to come.
- But the simulacra of certain ghastly events that took place under that roof in past days still continue.
- He could not fail to note the different effects he and his cousin produced in her—the ghastly difference.