ghoulish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to ghouls.

   • Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
2. 2

   Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Fascinated by corpses

   Fascinated by corpses; morbid.

   • 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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