Ghoulish

/ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to ghouls..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to ghouls.
2. Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
3. Fascinated by corpses; morbid.

Example Sentences

Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.

We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.

We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration.

At times it seemed almost an afterthought, during an extended trial subject to ghoulish fascination, that Don Patterson, Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson died terrible deaths.

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• more ghoulish
• most ghoulish

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