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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Horror hounds might get annoyed at how James is methodical in detailing the various factors influencing Hana to take ghoulish acts and even start making ash out of an obese corpse that her class is studying.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
21 May 2026
The gigs have a ghoulish tint, since the basic idea is for former employees to teach AI how to do their old jobs.
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Krystle Vermes,
Futurism,
13 May 2026
The context that so many Democrats leave out is that when the law was passed, the United States was contending with a ghoulish infrastructure of laws and policies that were explicitly aimed at Black Americans.
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Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
Karyn Kusama, director of the first two episodes, builds a potent mood and teases that the encroaching shadows and unexplained discolorations might have a ghoulish source, both behind that silver door and navigating the crawlspace.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2026
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
21 May 2026
The gigs have a ghoulish tint, since the basic idea is for former employees to teach AI how to do their old jobs.
—
Krystle Vermes,
Futurism,
13 May 2026
The context that so many Democrats leave out is that when the law was passed, the United States was contending with a ghoulish infrastructure of laws and policies that were explicitly aimed at Black Americans.
—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
6 May 2026
Karyn Kusama, director of the first two episodes, builds a potent mood and teases that the encroaching shadows and unexplained discolorations might have a ghoulish source, both behind that silver door and navigating the crawlspace.
—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Things rapidly spiral out of control for the quartet as a waking nightmare, filled with ghostly figures and sudden disappearances, unfolds.
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Loop adds transparency to moving objects between plays, for a ghostly look.
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Unfortunately, the costs of this fleeting spectral wonder are high, borne by negative consequences for our environment and our health.
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The visual intersperses footage from a trip the pair took to Iceland with clips of their Upstate New York home, a fitting backdrop to Sprague’s spectral vocals and wandering synth arcs.
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Avoiding vulnerability comes with ghastly consequences.
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He's described as a dead ringer for Nicholas Cage's ghastly villain in Longlegs, and there Elliott sits at a bus stop, looking as freakish as ever.
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Their courage quickly wavers in the face of the location’s eerie atmosphere and the deafening sound of cicadas.
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But here, its potential for ugly, alien tones is turned up to 11, an eerie buzz throbbing threateningly beneath the beats.
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The scene when Emily Blunt speaks in alien tongues was deeply spooky.
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Rebecca Hall is an incredible horror heroine, turning in phenomenally spooky and pained performances in The Night House and Resurrection.
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The couple made their relationship public in 2008 and went on to appear together in Kelly Reichardt's haunting neo-Western Meek's Cutoff (2010).
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Her mainstream breakthrough — and legacy-making performance — arrived with a haunting performance as stalker superfan Annie Wilkes in the 1990 film adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery.
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Or perhaps more accurately, like a gleeful romp with friends through a haunted-house attraction at a regional fair, with various creepy creatures leaping suddenly out of the darkness.
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The voice in the trailer is creepy and not in the way that Wonka is meant to be creepy.
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Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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