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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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
The location shooting in Serbia has an evocative ghostliness, but it's a one-note coloring that ignores any sense of a culture wracked by war but forging ahead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Mr. Stevens’s voice is gentle to the point of ghostliness as it floats amid dainty webs of fingerpicking and eerie clouds of reverberation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2015
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
