Ghastly

a.	1.	Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. - Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. - Macaulay.
	2.	Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. - Milton.
adv.	1.	In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. - Shak.

Adj.	1.	ghastly - shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" Synonyms: grisly, gruesome, macabre, grim
	2.	ghastly - gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral

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