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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Halloween is around the corner, and contrary to popular belief, the spookiest day of the year isn’t just about ghoulish fun and dressing up in costumes for the kiddos.
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Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
While the original Nosferatu is actually an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the ghoulish Count Orlok is quite different from Count Dracula’s charming, handsome nobleman.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The mod itself doesn’t actually change the gameplay of Marvel Rivals in any meaningful way, instead serving as little more than way to immediate make everyone in the game lobby cringe with its ghoulish design that looks more like a melting Michael Myers mask than anything else.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Louis Jourdan, Count Dracula (1977) This BBC TV movie is a faithful adaptation of the book, and Jourdan plays a Dracula who teems with ghoulish sophistication as a refined intellectual with an aptitude for language and etymology.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
While the original Nosferatu is actually an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the ghoulish Count Orlok is quite different from Count Dracula’s charming, handsome nobleman.
—Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The mod itself doesn’t actually change the gameplay of Marvel Rivals in any meaningful way, instead serving as little more than way to immediate make everyone in the game lobby cringe with its ghoulish design that looks more like a melting Michael Myers mask than anything else.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Louis Jourdan, Count Dracula (1977) This BBC TV movie is a faithful adaptation of the book, and Jourdan plays a Dracula who teems with ghoulish sophistication as a refined intellectual with an aptitude for language and etymology.
—Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Expand All Take a walk down a block of Coconut Avenue and hear the ghostly silence.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
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Threading together hyperspeed drums and a ghostly ambience, Balenci creates a sort of supernatural drill.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
28 Feb. 2025
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Limited Spectral Diversity: Many current EO datasets lack the spectral diversity needed for nuanced insights, which reduces AI’s ability to detect subtle variations in land use, vegetation health and environmental changes.—
Elizabeth Duffy,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Similarly, spectral matching against a database isn’t foolproof.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
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In those days the Everglades were seen as Florida’s ghastly backyard, a region of fearsome reptiles and unsavory characters.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Mar. 2025
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But the ghastly grit and chaos of this war is unlikely to be kind to a truce.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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Following Lottie’s lead, all the girls begin to chant and scream and dance around the fire, with the iconic eerie vocal chanting from the score joining in.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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As the audience pressed into a tight corner of the Park Avenue Armory, a jumbotron illuminated the darkened gymnasium, its bright red digits counting down with an eerie finality.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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One spooky dance found her paying tribute to Buffy.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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For San Diego’s soccer fans, spooky was what transpired in the 28th minute Saturday night in an otherwise celebratory first half of San Diego FC’s inaugural home opener.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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Krauss’s ethereal voice is as haunting as ever on this mournful ballad, where doleful lyrics look back on a time marked by regret and deceit, and get elevated by the elegant interplay between Krauss’ voice and Jerry Douglas’s soul-piercing steel guitar.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
3 Feb. 2025
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Set to the same eerily catchy tune by composer Theodore Shapiro, the Season 2 incarnation of the credits — seen for the first time in Episode 2, now streaming — are even more haunting, diving into the surreal world of Mark’s brain and introducing other characters and landscapes.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Both versions have the great misfortune of spending time with her father, Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry) who ratchets up the creepy factor to eleven.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Macfadyen is the perfect creepy suburban dad, gaslighting his wife into submission when not tending to his model train and town with his son in a wooden shed.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
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The esoteric will never sit completely comfortably in the mainstream, because that’s the point of it: to be unusual, bizarre, absurd.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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The Big Read The Story Of Climate-Friendly Digital Bank Aspiration Just Got Stranger The fintech industry has seen its fair share of spectacular failures and bizarre plot twists in recent years.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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