ghoulishness
- a word derived from ghoulish.
Example Sentences
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The content creators, to their credit, had no illusions about the ghoulishness of what they were doing here.
From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026
Glimpses of that ghoulishness arrive in scenes where Orlok is plaguing Ellen, but when he’s hunting and not haunting, Skarsgård overextends himself to the point it veers on goofiness.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024
This garden event in the Bronx promises several, but the intent isn’t holiday ghoulishness.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2019
Characteristically, Dickens set out to transform an unliterary genre, the ghost story – fodder of magazine fiction – into a moral satire, combining ghoulishness with comedy.
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2017
We looked with a deeper interest then at the man whose arms were bound, but privately we permitted ourselves to be skeptical regarding the details of his alleged ghoulishness.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
