ghastly
adjective
shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible.
ghastlier
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comparativeof ghastly.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Not least because, given various developing news stories relating to our hosts, the tournament has rather ghastlier noises-off than usual.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2018
Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now investigators believe that both versions have a piece of the even ghastlier truth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet ghastlier, yet more wonderful, A crab upon a spider rides, Perched on a goose's neck a skull In scarlet cap revolving glides.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
But the ghastly face had given me a ghastlier thought.
From Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
