ghastly
adjective
shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible.
ghastliest
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superlativeof ghastly.superlative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating the greatest degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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Minnesota will try to revive its fading playoff hopes four days after one of the ghastliest losses of the season, a 29-27 defeat Sunday to the previously winless Detroit Lions.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
They made it to the Super Bowl in 2014, only to have the ghastliest ending in football history against the Patriots.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2021
It was that ghastliest of hours — 3 a.m. — bedtime a distant memory and daylight an eternity away.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
Native American activists said it trivialized one of the ghastliest episodes in Dakota indigenous history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2017
He ought to be one of two things—your ghastliest dread or your absolute trust.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
