Synonym: appalling, contemptible, deathlike, deplorable, detestable, dreadful, frightful, horrible, outrageous, pale, repulsive, sallow, shocking, terrible, vile, wretched. Similar words: mostly, costly, honestly, laugh at, whistle, jostling, partly, gently. Meaning: ['gæstlɪ /'gɑːs-] adj. 1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror 2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead.
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61. Canon Wheeler was seated at his enormous desk in front of the ghastly picture of Marsyas.
62. The look on the dead man's face was ghastly, as if some phantom of the night had stopped his heart.
63. The parent's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness.
64. Then the hero's ghastly disease was loosely based on the Ramsey Street saga of Bev's car crash and coma.
65. But it's tricky if you're a single parent - isn't that a ghastly expression?
66. He was a ghastly little tyke, but it is quite awful that he's dead.
67. It's amazing how many women perm hair that's already damaged and then wonder why the results are ghastly.
68. Mr Rolleman was lying almost at her feet, his eyes staring blindly upward from a face of ghastly purple.
69. He said the plastic surgeon drank vodka and sniffed cocaine during the operation, and the result was a ghastly mask.
70. He remembered that ghastly hunt across the fields at Woodstock and bit his lip at the despair he felt.
71. He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
72. There had been a ghastly failure of security, and heads had rolled.
73. Heavy, woollen - perhaps even wooden - tailoring with over-scaled collars and sleeve detailing opened up to reveal ghastly print linings.
74. I fought down the ghastly urge coming up from my stomach.
75. Tony made a ghastly mistake.
76. You will banish these ghastly thoughts.
77. My face looks like a cadaver equally ghastly!
78. I feel ghastly about it.
79. The consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate.
80. The psychiatrist interpreted John's ghastly dream.
81. Then a ghastly thought occurred to Tom.
82. The ghastly sight gave him the shudders.
83. They had a ghastly time at the party.
84. His face was ghastly white twitching with suppressed pain.
85. Anyone of right mind would have considered it a ghastly joke.
86. Bright reds and yellows gush a ghastly sight from the darkness.
87. A ghastly twitch for a smile overwhelmed the compassionate ladies.
88. It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature -- neither ghastly, hateful(sentencedict.com), nor ugly.
89. To cap it all I wrote you that perfectly ghastly, unforgivable letter six short days ago!
90. CLOSE upon the hour of noon the whole village was suddenly electrified with the ghastly news.