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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
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JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
Adjective
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Bryce Dallas Howard is getting ghostly.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sadie Benning and Michael Almereyda have found ghostly, evocative textures using Pixelvision, a Fisher-Price toy camera from the late 1980s.—
Dennis Lim,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In 2016, there was the deliciously funky The New Breed, named for his late father’s African American apparel store in Connecticut, and the spectral Slight Freedom.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2026
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In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Stars’ other major trade pickup, Tyler Myers, was in street clothes for Game 6 after a ghastly Game 5 performance in which at least two, if not three, Minnesota goals could be laid partially at his feet.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Car launches are generally ghastly events, and this was way down there with the most hideous… and perhaps gave a clue as to why VW struggles to match its huge European sales success in America.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Martel turns that eerie impassivity into an asset by treating the drone’s perspective as a kind of God’s-eye view of a conflict in which one side is trying to win by way of the inexorable, self-reinforcing power of bureaucracy and paperwork.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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From baby predictions to relationship woes to eerie death foretellings, see some of Tyler Henry's most shockingly accurate predictions.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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There’s a reason that horror movies tend to thrive during the spookiest month of the year.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2026
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These kids are spooky, and often annoying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The goal was to find out what would happen when Creasy, who used to excel in harrowing situations, is confronted with the exact conditions that are likely to trigger his most haunting memories.—
Lisa de los Reyes,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
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Pictures from the excavation reveal a haunting array of artifacts.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Ohm faces plenty of freaky sights and sounds, from dead bodies and claustrophobic dumbwaiters to a creepy kids show that will give you the willies.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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The book has just been republished by Tor Nightfire, with a wonderfully creepy cover, after gaining traction via TikTok.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 5 May. 2026.
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