Example Sentences

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“What the sickniks dispense is partly social criticism liberally laced with cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025

The chief ghoul is gone, but the ghoulishness is here to stay.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2021

Echoes of season 1 ring throughout three, and the mystery itself has a whiff of hoodoo ghoulishness that evokes past scenes.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 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)