Meaning & use
ghastly
Extremely unpleasant, frightening, or shocking, often due to appearing pale or deathlike.
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The car accident left a ghastly scene that witnesses struggled to describe.
He looked ghastly after staying up all night with a fever.
A note on using this word
Can describe something genuinely horrifying or, in British English, be used more mildly for something simply very bad.
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