as in spectral
of or relating to a ghost
A ghostly figure appears in the house at night.
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The cries that echo through the house at night aren’t ghostly wails but Asha’s gut-wrenching sobs.
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Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Del Toro, as is his custom, displays a tremendous empathy for his otherworldly characters, here ghostly women who were once silenced but whose urgent cries must now be heeded.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
The beauty of The Innocents lies in its enduring ambiguity, the frantic chaos of Giddens’s mind contrasted against the eerie hush that descends on the film ahead of its first ghostly appearance; both scenarios rendered equally and disturbingly plausible.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Navy cadets who stayed at the house during World World II were the first to report a ghostly woman in a white gown walking the hallways of the house, and further reports of strange happenings emerged in the 1970s during the house’s time as space for the music conservatory.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
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Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Del Toro, as is his custom, displays a tremendous empathy for his otherworldly characters, here ghostly women who were once silenced but whose urgent cries must now be heeded.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
The beauty of The Innocents lies in its enduring ambiguity, the frantic chaos of Giddens’s mind contrasted against the eerie hush that descends on the film ahead of its first ghostly appearance; both scenarios rendered equally and disturbingly plausible.
—Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Navy cadets who stayed at the house during World World II were the first to report a ghostly woman in a white gown walking the hallways of the house, and further reports of strange happenings emerged in the 1970s during the house’s time as space for the music conservatory.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Ghostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghostly. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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