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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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Modern science tends to see consciousness as arising from neural activity, like ghostly software conjured through the brain’s material hardware.—
Conor Feehly,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
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This was a time of communal seances, Ouija boards, and ghostly communication—ghost writing, in the literal sense.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Superior spectral energy resolution, a superior point-spread-function, and high-contrast imaging can help enable all of these, above and beyond Chandra’s current limits.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Mar. 2026
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Still, the Kramers have found that a little spectral marketing doesn’t hurt.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The ghastly kills are there — innards are spilled on floors, knives go through temples, heads stuck on pikes expel vomitous discharge — but there’s little of the preceding back-and-forth that made such scenes notable in the past and at least conceptually justified the grotesquerie.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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In the two seasons before Motta’s return, the Mavericks were a ghastly 24-140 under Richie Adubato and Quinn Buckner.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The scene is interrupted when in the scribe’s home, shrouded in darkness, eerie sounds distract him from what’s on his digital page.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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Rusting agricultural equipment and decaying barns gave the sci-fi story an eerie texture that’s strangely suited to a movie theater in a trailer.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 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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Over the years, humpback whale songs have been recorded for human listening, with many describing the songs as having a haunting, mournful quality.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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In Clint Eastwood's haunting neo-noir mystery, Penn is top-notch as a grieving father with some shady undertones.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Even a creepy, homemade duct tape balaclava mask shows up.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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Madigan embodied the role of Gladys, giving a phenomenally creepy portrayal of the great-aunt of a young boy whose classmates go missing overnight.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Mar. 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 18 Mar. 2026.
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