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ghoulish

[ goo-lish ]

adjective

  1. strangely diabolical or cruel; monstrous:

    a ghoulish and questionable sense of humor.

  2. showing fascination with death, disease, maiming, etc.; morbid:

    ghoulish curiosity.

  3. of, relating to, or like a ghoul or ghouls.


ˈghoulish

/ ˈɡuːlɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to ghouls; morbid or disgusting; unhealthily interested in death
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈghoulishness, noun
  • ˈghoulishly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • ghoulish·ly adverb
  • ghoulish·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ghoulish1

First recorded in 1835–45; ghoul + -ish 1
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Example Sentences

However, at $108 per year, HereAfter services could quickly add up if you do some ghoulish back-of-the-envelope math on lifetime costs.

Back in Washington, the results are likely to bring their own ghoulish realities.

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Assam, the setting for his ghoulish death dance on the body of a Muslim, is where this construct of the Muslim as the unwanted, dangerous outsider has been honed and mainstreamed.

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So many of the disasters—and it’s hard to call them “natural disasters” anymore—are record-breaking and defying historic norms in ghoulish ways.

And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.

Yesterday afternoon, the "NRA Women" Twitter account sent out a simple and yet ghoulish message to its followers.

Other attempts to bring cult favorites back from the dead have had more ghoulish results.

Typical of most old cemeteries, eerie carved-stone Angels of Death and other ghoulish figures adorn many of the tombstones.

They cast a ghoulish light on this roughly 8-by-10-foot room, where the family of eight struggles to survive.

Such was their appearance; mournful, ghoulish, yet human and warm in a repressed, frustrated way.

So he had devised a ghoulish and crafty punishment, which, the more he pondered it, the more subtle and effective did it appear.

To French readers this scene may seem a ghoulish farce: English humour accepts it from Norwegian humour without demur.

Seen as I had seen it, it was a ghoulish-looking place—as weird as a Paris catacomb—but then daylight makes all the difference.

So once again the phantom rider had brought its grisly message—played its ghoulish rôle.

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