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 is the intrusion into our matter-of-fact lives of the uncanny element, which the novice so grossly misuses in his tales of premonitory dreams and visions, and of most unghostly ghosts.
From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett
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
It was the most unghostly thing in the world, with its lavender border and its faint scent.
From The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
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
