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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Errors like these in TV depictions reduce autopsies to ghoulish spectacles, when the procedure is in fact a respectful and uniquely useful tool for understanding how a person lived and died.
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Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
Lady Gaga is joining the ghoulish world of Wednesday for its second season, and the Netflix series’ star Jenna Ortega opened up about working with Mother Monster.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
There are elegant formulas that sit well under makeup, that don’t have a ghoulish white tint or cause your skincare to pill.
—Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
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Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
Lady Gaga is joining the ghoulish world of Wednesday for its second season, and the Netflix series’ star Jenna Ortega opened up about working with Mother Monster.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
There are elegant formulas that sit well under makeup, that don’t have a ghoulish white tint or cause your skincare to pill.
—Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Like the ghostly hulk of the Titanic below the surface of the sea, Northbrook Court is a quiet and cavernous relic — at the bottom of the retail food chain.—
David Petitti,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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Now, that’s nearly gone, showing only a ghostly impression against the freckles on his skin.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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McDowell says this is because the Airbus Pleiades satellite likely snapped the photo using different spectral bands.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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Instead, Mu Cassiopeia A is a simple field star --- a yellow dwarf of the same spectral type as our own sun, but one that clocks in at an astonishing 12.7 billion years old.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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For a wildly imaginative world-building project, the film is mostly ghastly to look at, all flat green-screen and blocky sets for the cast to scramble upon.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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At age 6, little Richie Starkey contracted a ghastly case of peritonitis.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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Disappearing from the table, my father returned with that eerie icon of the naked woman.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Related article An eerie spiral lit up the European skies.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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This weekend, April 12-13, every streamer and theater decided to mark the return or premiere of their spookiest, most dystopian projects.—
Rebecca Aizin,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Original Misfits The desert is going to get spooky when horror-punk pioneers the Misfits close out the Outdoor Theatre on Saturday night.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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This is a haunting, unpredictable novel that’s hard to shake after reading.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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With a limited color palette and very spare design, the show subverts the commonplace elements of an office and invents a haunting visual language all its own that creeps you out while drawing you in.—
Charlotte Collins,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2025
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Paul Henreid’s Dead Ringer is a creepy exploration of how identical twins survive without each other.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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There’s a terrifically creepy scene in which the vampires, led by O’Connell’s fiery-eyed Remmick, go into an Irish step dance (at this point there are Black vampires who’ve been bitten and are part of the cult), and the message is: Give up your freedom and join us!—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Continue reading … 'THIS IS SO CRAZY' – DOGE reveals bizarre findings of unemployment insurance claims.—
FOXNews.com,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Soon after, Verity joins Maria's team as a research assistant via a job listing the latter wasn't aware of, which kicks off a slew of other bizarre happenings in the office.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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