ghostly
adjective
of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
ghostliness
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a word derived from
ghostly.
Example Sentences
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But that same reliance on ghostliness asks us to accept that some things can’t be explained, which either begs us to believe in magic or to overlook plot holes.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
The resulting portrait shows the wizened physicist in a spectral blur — a foggy ghostliness caused by the technical imprecision of a novice, but nevertheless possessing the unmistakable aesthetic that defines a Stafford photograph.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
The resulting image haunts, its ghostliness keyed to the ambivalent predicament of young black lives even under a banner of patriotism.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2019
She didn’t mean something supernatural, exactly—more like a literary ghostliness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018
Her imagination was an instrument of wonder, and she fashioned, of the stuff of her ghostliness, an ever-shifting expression of her marvelous self.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
