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单词 ghoulish
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Definition of ghoulish in English:

ghoulish

adjective ˈɡuːlɪʃˈɡulɪʃ
  • 1Resembling or characteristic of a ghoul.

    a ghoulish mask
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The show was based on the work of Charles Addams, whose cartoon creations about this ghoulish family appeared regularly in the New Yorker.
    • Telephone users in the city these days have been treated to a sound resembling a ghoulish wail.
    • Up to now they have scraped a living by producing ghoulish dolls.
    • Other effects excel, such as the ghoulish twins and their transporter beam shenanigans.
    • As an example, a counselor painted with makeup to appear ghoulish - perhaps as part of Carnival - may no longer be entirely appropriate.
    • Many couples that park their cars near the graveyard to make out find themselves at the mercy of these ghoulish ghosts.
    • You wonder if they just thought a particularly large group of rather ghoulish tourists had turned up.
    • Some demonstrators wore ghoulish masks as they stuck a green banner to a police barricade at the farm's entrance.
    • Usually, the Salem native is called upon to make people look good, not ghoulish.
    • Ghoulish creatures climbed over each other behind the knight.
    • The shocks were accompanied by a ghoulish rumbling noise that was terrifying to those who heard it.
    • His early tempera-and-ink paintings depicting ghoulish figures firmly situate him in the postwar European figurative art scene.
    • They don't even bother with a scary laugh or ghoulish shriek.
    • Willem Dafoe exudes creepy coolness as Max Schreck, the ghoulish actor whose vampiric tendencies may just be the real deal.
    • Hobbes and Darien confront a ghoulish hit man who blinds any witnesses to the killings.
    • They make the film interesting and do their best to be horrified gristle for the ghoulish girl out to exact revenge on them.
    • These emerge from the grass looking like some ghoulish knuckle.
    • Also in the store was Cher, who purchased some devilish goods including containers of face paint to create a garish, ghoulish glow.
    • Sure, the red monk is an appropriately ghoulish fiend; but this is really more of a quirky detective story than a horror film.
    • There are even some scary werewolves and other ghoulish creatures to battle.
    Synonyms
    macabre, grisly, gruesome, grotesque, ghastly, morbid
    unhealthy, perverted, death-obsessed, morbid, black
    horrible, unwholesome, revolting
    informal sick
  • 2Morbidly interested in death or disaster.

    she told the story with ghoulish relish
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a ghoulish exploitation of a great tragedy.
    • For the past hour, he had been picking up the dead, and the ghoulish task had the effect of a nightmare.
    • In a ghoulish gallery, Bart hosts three bloodcurdling tales of Halloween horror.
    • This ghoulish history is irrelevant to Harley riders - their aim is to be photographed by the huge sign at company HQ.
    • Whether you are tramping through muddy forests, mysterious tunnels or misty waters, the locations drip with ghoulish detail.
    • There is a ghoulish legend attached to the house.
    • Holidays don't come much more ghoulish than this.
    • The most ghoulish mass murderer in history has been in a coma for ten years.
    • I comment with amusement on the slightly ghoulish relish with which he is approaching the experiment.
    • The plundering of body parts of radiation victims reached ghoulish proportions.
    • Aiello says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
    • The man they made this ghoulish request to is a key figure in the Limerick underworld.
    • Within hours of the disaster, a number of ghoulish items began appearing on eBay.
    • Lights, staging, and the variety of ghoulish gadgetry are all as I remember, and in some cases technology has improved on them.
    • Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside.
    • The story of what happens next has been told innumerable times, to the point of having become a ghoulish soap opera.
    • Even the publicity for the exhibition plays up a ghoulish fascination with medieval atrocities.
    • The interest in death which had always permeated his work now re-emerged, transformed from the ghoulish into the pensive.
    • It keeps the ghoulish gore while adding hilarious physical comedy and some classic one liners.
    • Chimneys dot the landscape like diseased tree-trunks supporting ghoulish branches of black smoke.

Derivatives

  • ghoulishly

  • adverbˈɡuːlɪʃ(ə)liˈɡulɪʃli
    • Another details his assassination at Sarajevo in June 1914 including ghoulishly exhibiting the blood-stained shirt he was wearing at the time.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hank's father Buck is an unmitigated racist who ghoulishly collects newspaper clippings about Lawrence's execution.
      • Yes, I am talking about Hallowe'en, which is creeping ghoulishly closer and which seems to get bigger and scarier each year.
  • ghoulishness

  • noun
    • This cartoon will thrill older children with its ghoulishness, which is admirably extreme, but never excessive.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What might have been an informative film descends rapidly into ghoulishness and voyeurism.
      • Not ghoulishness, nor a ritual piece of Sunday morning liberal self-flagellation.
      • There is absolutely positively and unequivocally zero news value in this ghoulishness.
      • I'm not saying that we should not see these things, but are they now treated with a ghoulishness that belittles the losses that the images represent?

Rhymes

coolish, foolish, mulish
 
 

Definition of ghoulish in US English:

ghoulish

adjectiveˈɡo͞oliSHˈɡulɪʃ
  • 1Resembling or characteristic of a ghoul.

    a ghoulish mask
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They don't even bother with a scary laugh or ghoulish shriek.
    • Sure, the red monk is an appropriately ghoulish fiend; but this is really more of a quirky detective story than a horror film.
    • The shocks were accompanied by a ghoulish rumbling noise that was terrifying to those who heard it.
    • His early tempera-and-ink paintings depicting ghoulish figures firmly situate him in the postwar European figurative art scene.
    • Many couples that park their cars near the graveyard to make out find themselves at the mercy of these ghoulish ghosts.
    • There are even some scary werewolves and other ghoulish creatures to battle.
    • Some demonstrators wore ghoulish masks as they stuck a green banner to a police barricade at the farm's entrance.
    • Willem Dafoe exudes creepy coolness as Max Schreck, the ghoulish actor whose vampiric tendencies may just be the real deal.
    • The show was based on the work of Charles Addams, whose cartoon creations about this ghoulish family appeared regularly in the New Yorker.
    • Up to now they have scraped a living by producing ghoulish dolls.
    • They make the film interesting and do their best to be horrified gristle for the ghoulish girl out to exact revenge on them.
    • Also in the store was Cher, who purchased some devilish goods including containers of face paint to create a garish, ghoulish glow.
    • Hobbes and Darien confront a ghoulish hit man who blinds any witnesses to the killings.
    • Telephone users in the city these days have been treated to a sound resembling a ghoulish wail.
    • You wonder if they just thought a particularly large group of rather ghoulish tourists had turned up.
    • Other effects excel, such as the ghoulish twins and their transporter beam shenanigans.
    • Usually, the Salem native is called upon to make people look good, not ghoulish.
    • These emerge from the grass looking like some ghoulish knuckle.
    • As an example, a counselor painted with makeup to appear ghoulish - perhaps as part of Carnival - may no longer be entirely appropriate.
    • Ghoulish creatures climbed over each other behind the knight.
    Synonyms
    macabre, grisly, gruesome, grotesque, ghastly, morbid
    unhealthy, perverted, death-obsessed, morbid, black
  • 2Morbidly interested in death or disaster.

    she told the story with ghoulish relish
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is a ghoulish legend attached to the house.
    • Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside.
    • The most ghoulish mass murderer in history has been in a coma for ten years.
    • Lights, staging, and the variety of ghoulish gadgetry are all as I remember, and in some cases technology has improved on them.
    • The story of what happens next has been told innumerable times, to the point of having become a ghoulish soap opera.
    • Within hours of the disaster, a number of ghoulish items began appearing on eBay.
    • This is a ghoulish exploitation of a great tragedy.
    • Even the publicity for the exhibition plays up a ghoulish fascination with medieval atrocities.
    • I comment with amusement on the slightly ghoulish relish with which he is approaching the experiment.
    • For the past hour, he had been picking up the dead, and the ghoulish task had the effect of a nightmare.
    • Whether you are tramping through muddy forests, mysterious tunnels or misty waters, the locations drip with ghoulish detail.
    • The man they made this ghoulish request to is a key figure in the Limerick underworld.
    • Chimneys dot the landscape like diseased tree-trunks supporting ghoulish branches of black smoke.
    • The interest in death which had always permeated his work now re-emerged, transformed from the ghoulish into the pensive.
    • In a ghoulish gallery, Bart hosts three bloodcurdling tales of Halloween horror.
    • Aiello says the ghoulish graveyard thefts would have been unthinkable in an earlier age.
    • Holidays don't come much more ghoulish than this.
    • This ghoulish history is irrelevant to Harley riders - their aim is to be photographed by the huge sign at company HQ.
    • It keeps the ghoulish gore while adding hilarious physical comedy and some classic one liners.
    • The plundering of body parts of radiation victims reached ghoulish proportions.
 
 
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