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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Lady Gaga is joining the ghoulish world of Wednesday for its second season, and the Netflix series’ star Jenna Ortega opened up about working with Mother Monster.
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Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
There are elegant formulas that sit well under makeup, that don’t have a ghoulish white tint or cause your skincare to pill.
—Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Show me Ed Gein displaying a human-skin lampshade with a full ear on it — ghoulish and silly is the goal!
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
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Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
There are elegant formulas that sit well under makeup, that don’t have a ghoulish white tint or cause your skincare to pill.
—Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Show me Ed Gein displaying a human-skin lampshade with a full ear on it — ghoulish and silly is the goal!
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Another team, led by astronomer Yimeng Tang at the University of California, Santa Cruz, compared FCC 224's properties to other galaxies that seemingly lack dark matter, focusing on two ghostly objects within the NGC 1052 group about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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The parting words of this ghostly image of her have been lodged in Ray’s mind way past its welcome.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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Researchers around the world will waste hours on the Internet hunting around for the best spectral measurements, says Evgeny Stambulchik, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2025
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Unofficially, the headliner that night was Sematary, who at the time was 23, and whose role as leader of the young, spectral, and heavily referential rap collective had recently come into question.—
Meaghan Garvey,
Pitchfork,
13 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners flexes a modern disregard for categorization, exploring the ghastly inequities of the Jim Crow South through luridly competing genre lenses.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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The Rangers did just enough wrong to have to sweat this one out, with a few ghastly turnovers, a short-handed goal against and another o-fer on the power play, which is 2 for its last 41.—
Arthur Staple,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Disappearing from the table, my father returned with that eerie icon of the naked woman.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Related article An eerie spiral lit up the European skies.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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The ominously spooky vibes are off the charts and things go very badly, very quickly for the friends.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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The spooky Netflix hit welcomes several new faces in season 2, including Steve Buscemi and Lady Gaga.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The director also discussed his approach to specific technical elements, including a haunting, silent earthquake scene that was designed not to trigger audiences who had experienced actual seismic events.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2025
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Dennis Quaid is set to mark a haunting role in his filmography: Playing a serial killer.—
Vincent Perella,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
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Gabriela’s stalker exit arc & likely return DEADLINE: After being put through the ringer the last three seasons, Gabriela got to end her arc with a creepy stalker storyline.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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It has been forged with integrity, especially in the superior first act, before the show gets trapped in one of its bespoke devices: creepy stuff happening during the production of a high school play.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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This is just one in a series of bizarre events that unfolded on the afternoon of April 19, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Even more bizarre was the depth the starlight's dip changed with every transit.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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