Ghastliness
['ga:stlinis]
Definition
(n.) The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.
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Examples
- There's reason for ghastliness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One can not appreciate the horror of this disease until he looks upon it in all its ghastliness, in Naaman's ancient dwelling in Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She suffered the ghastliness of dissolution, broken and gone in a horrible corruption. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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