ghoulish

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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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  1. from ghoul + -ish.

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