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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Its quality isn't the horror itself but the ghoulish environment and subtle danger that lies beneath, being a whodunit occult film that never lets up, keeping us guessing on the true nature of the terrors up until the bitter end.
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Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Looking just as suave, Consuelos wore a floral, black-and-gold bullfighter suit with ghoulish makeup to match his wife’s skeleton face paint.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew.
—Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Aquarius Looking for a ghoulish time?
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
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Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Looking just as suave, Consuelos wore a floral, black-and-gold bullfighter suit with ghoulish makeup to match his wife’s skeleton face paint.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew.
—Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Aquarius Looking for a ghoulish time?
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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The book’s heroine, Catherine Morland, is an avid reader of the popular novels of the day, and has a specific fondness for Ann Radcliffe’s real-life 1794 best seller, The Mysteries of Udolpho, a tale of ghostly figures and hidden manuscripts.—
Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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That phrase will take on new meaning this July as Disneyland announced its famed ghostly estate will become available for weddings for the first time.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The potential greening-and-browning of the continents with seasonal variations, with spectral signatures potentially revealing the chemical products powering life on that world.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Feb. 2026
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The ghost in Beloved was not Morrison’s first spectral being.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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Maye had three turnovers in Super Bowl 60, including a ghastly, unforced interception that snuffed a semi-decent comeback chance.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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And Petitti, presumably with the backing of his schools, favored a ghastly 24-team model that would have fundamentally altered the regular season.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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But just a year before the series dropped, there was a different high-profile homicide less than two hours from Murphy’s hometown of Indianapolis involving a huge brick mansion and an ominous rubber suit—eerie similarities to the first season of the FX series.—
Eve Batey,
Vanity Fair,
19 Feb. 2026
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The combination of eerie rubber gloves and makeup artist Emi Kaneko’s oxblood lip at Lii seemed to embody the spirit of the main character of the 2013 sci-fi thriller Under the Skin.—
Arden Fanning Andrews,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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These kids are spooky, and often annoying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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The first lady opted for a simple, non-spooky aesthetic, lining the stairs and walkways outside with pumpkins and fall leaves.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025
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Despite some progress, homelessness is still a public catastrophe, and gravely ill people are a haunting representation of policy failures.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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Although not exactly the same, Bach Mai wove together long silk strands of black fringe on a dress, coat and skirt for a look that felt similarly haunting.—
Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Then there's SpongeBob SquarePants, whose latest movie finds the iconic character venturing to the creepy Underworld with a dastardly phantom pirate.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Light a candelabra, put on some face paint, hire that creepy choir—or at least rent a keyboard to sound like one.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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The band performed the song, sans Pat Smear who is recovering from a bizarre gardening accident that led to a broken foot, on The Graham Norton Show on Friday.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2026
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All three runners had reached base, and all were tagged out on one bizarre play.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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