ghoulish
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡuːlɪʃ/
ghoulish
- Of or pertaining to ghouls.
- 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.32
- Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
- 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.32
- Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
- 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator Herbert West: Reanimator]
- 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.
- 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Herbert_West:_Reanimator Herbert West: Reanimator]
- Fascinated by corpses.
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