单词 | ghostly-looking |
释义 | > as lemmasghostly-looking , In sense 6, with present participles, forming adjectives in which ghostly expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in ghostly-looking, (less commonly) ghostly-sounding. ΚΠ 1803 C. Fothergill Wanderer I. i. i. 14 The old woman conducted us into an oak-wainscoted parlour, on the right of this ghostly-looking hall. 1881 Young Ireland 9 Apr. 235/2 The ghostly-sounding voice pronouncing the ominous words of doom. 1888 R. Kipling Plain Tales from Hills (1889) 52 The dust-white, ghostly-looking men and women. 2007 Opera Now Mar. 102/3 There are wonderful sonorities from drums played with stones, ghostly-sounding bowed waterphones, ceramic jars, and a giant bronze bell. 2019 Times (Nexis) 14 Feb. 19 Our two native birches are not as ghostly-looking. < as lemmas |
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