ghoulish
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- Natural to or resembling a ghoul: as, ghoulish delight.
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- Once they were dead, he painted the women's faces with ghoulish-looking blue paint. — Four Blind Mice
- "It gets worse," he said, with a kind of ghoulish excitement, like a child telling a ghost story. — Prison Of Souls
- Their appetites are ghoulish, their hunger divine. — Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- "Don't be ghoulish," she said. — Outside In
- I'm not intending to be ghoulish, Mr. Alex. — In the Presence of the Enemy
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- from ghoul + -ish.