ghostly
adjective
of, characteristic of, or resembling a ghost; phantasmal; spectral.
unghostly
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a word derived from
ghostly.
Example Sentences
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It was such a relief to hear something unghostly, that she sprang to the door; but as she undid it, all her scruples seized her, and she tried to hold it, saying, 'Don't come in!
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
They did, however, shout with laughter when a second ghost, the assistant to the first tripped out from behind another tree with a little chirp that was distinctly unghostly.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Janet Aldridge
We went to bed feeling quite happy, saying we had never been in such an unghostly house before.
From The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by A. Goodrich-Freer
But cast away unghostly and old wives' fables.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
My voice, which I take it had nothing ghostly in it, and still more the levelled pistol, which of all implements is the most unghostly, dispelled his dread.
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini
