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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Grab your best gal pals, and celebrate the witchiest season with an appetizer party full of ghoulish fun.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
After provoking the ire of the college kids, Madea and her clan are subjected to a series of ghoulish pranks.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Every trip to the electric chair is horrifying; a sequence where an intentionally botched execution ignites a still-living prisoner's screaming head in ghoulish blue flames is up there with any supernatural fright King's ever conceived.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Many dressed as ghoulish priests and nuns, their faces painted white and black.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
After provoking the ire of the college kids, Madea and her clan are subjected to a series of ghoulish pranks.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Every trip to the electric chair is horrifying; a sequence where an intentionally botched execution ignites a still-living prisoner's screaming head in ghoulish blue flames is up there with any supernatural fright King's ever conceived.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Many dressed as ghoulish priests and nuns, their faces painted white and black.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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The ghostly presence here is Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan, who took his own life in 1814 where Muriel’s Séance Lounge is today.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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Other notable ghostly towns Savannah, Georgia is an old city, and like any old city, it's got its share of ghost stories.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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In the center of the room, swathed in shadow, is the faint spectral outline of a small boy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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The mantis shrimp is nature’s high-speed boxer with multi-spectral vision, a creature that hits faster than a bullet’s acceleration and sees the unseen.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925) is a benchmark for the ghastly horrors that accompany unrequited love, and Chaney's twisted character will go to absurd lengths to have his way.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Golden State committed 20 turnovers, a ghastly 14 of them in the first half.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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From an island shaped like a battleship to a village said to be home to a legendary witch, explore seven of the world’s eeriest, most mysterious destinations.—
Sarah Hutter,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Over the years, in a third-floor guestroom (3327) where the woman stayed, guests have reported a number of strange and eerie occurrences.—
Noreen Kompanik,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Melania has gone a bit spookier in years past.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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San Diego's The Whaley House was the third spookiest site on the list, reportedly haunted by descendants of the Whaley family.—
Kristine Hansen,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Oct. 2025
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While not entirely up to par with its predecessor, its incorporation of the Amityville house murders, Joseph Bishara's haunting musical score, and Wan's hyper-frenzied direction should still leave most Conjuring fans satisfied.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Yet that depth is what makes Battle Royale so haunting.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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This time of the year, your yard might be getting visits that are scary and creepy.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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Three years after their wonderfully creepy first feature film Coraline, the stop-motion wizards at Laika released this horror comedy about an 11-year-old boy who can communicate with the dead.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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As travelers crave experiences over ordinary stays, hotels that have transformed grim to glam are now embracing their bizarre and sometimes haunted histories, even hosting weddings and wellness retreats.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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But things take a bizarre turn when her son, Simón (Roger Príncep), goes missing.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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