ghastliest
- superlative of ghastly.
Example Sentences
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There’s a darkly funny early shot of Rudolf riding a horse from his yard up to the gates of Auschwitz, completing the world’s shortest, ghastliest commute.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
Historian Timothy Snyder has defined Ukraine and its Eastern European vicinity as the Bloodlands, the most violent frontier of the ghastliest era in human history.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022
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
Or else a lost and deeply wounded one, In a wild swamp all bilious greens, Came on a corpse a bare branch dangling on; The ghastliest of scenes!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
