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ghastily

adv

Etymology

Apparently ghastly + -ly.

  1. derived from gǣstan
  2. derived from gastly
  3. formed as ghastily — “ghastly + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a ghastly manner.

    • […] in their various attitudes of death / My murdered children’s mute and eyeless sculls / Glared ghastily upon me.
    • When he tosseth his head, / The drear-white steed, / And ghastily champeth the last moon-ray,— / What angel there / Can lead him away, / That the living may rule for the Dead?
    • Johnnie’s face […] is ghastily beaten, bloodied, cut and swollen, eyes shut, neck limp;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA