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Recent Examples of ghoulish
Next up is Pagli, a madwoman with a thin, charred body, fiendish laugh, and ghoulish shrieks.
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JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Its quality isn't the horror itself but the ghoulish environment and subtle danger that lies beneath, being a whodunit occult film that never lets up, keeping us guessing on the true nature of the terrors up until the bitter end.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Looking just as suave, Consuelos wore a floral, black-and-gold bullfighter suit with ghoulish makeup to match his wife’s skeleton face paint.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew.
—Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Its quality isn't the horror itself but the ghoulish environment and subtle danger that lies beneath, being a whodunit occult film that never lets up, keeping us guessing on the true nature of the terrors up until the bitter end.
—Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Looking just as suave, Consuelos wore a floral, black-and-gold bullfighter suit with ghoulish makeup to match his wife’s skeleton face paint.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew.
—Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
Adjective
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Bryce Dallas Howard is getting ghostly.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sadie Benning and Michael Almereyda have found ghostly, evocative textures using Pixelvision, a Fisher-Price toy camera from the late 1980s.—
Dennis Lim,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In 2016, there was the deliciously funky The New Breed, named for his late father’s African American apparel store in Connecticut, and the spectral Slight Freedom.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2026
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In this haunting and visually inventive documentary, a spectral voice drifts through time and memory to trace the Maidan revolution and the roots of resistance in Ukraine.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Car launches are generally ghastly events, and this was way down there with the most hideous… and perhaps gave a clue as to why VW struggles to match its huge European sales success in America.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Apr. 2026
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And a joyous family reunion soon turns into a ghastly nightmare.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The singer slowed down the track a bit by adding an acoustic guitar, a pedal steel guitar, and switching out the eerie flute notes for a piano.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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The 2026 Wagner New Play Festival kicks off today at UC San Diego, with three new works by MFA plywriting candidates on topics ranging from caveman romance to self-identity to an eerie high school ritual.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There’s a reason that horror movies tend to thrive during the spookiest month of the year.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2026
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These kids are spooky, and often annoying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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While its 209-minute runtime may be daunting, the film moves along at an entertaining clip (thanks in part to master editor Thelma Schoonmaker), and the viewer's patience is rewarded with a haunting conclusion that recontextualizes all that came before.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Apr. 2026
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The 2019 overdose death of aspiring personal trainer Cody McLaury was found to have a haunting connection to Perry.—
Jack Hannah,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Before the title card, there is also a creepy look at Matt with no eyes, nose or mouth.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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Screenwriter Jeremy Robbins sets up what appears to be a potential threat in a creepy kangaroo hunter (Matt Whelan) and his drunken mate (Rob Carlton), whose names alone, Diesel and Ripper, carry a hint of menace.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Diners have toasted to him ever since, trading stories of feeling ghostlike brushes along their legs during Lowcountry meals.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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