Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ghastly; horrible; dreadful; deadly.

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  • adjective ghastly

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Examples

  • He became more and more "gashly," and a certain awful light in his eyes alarmed the carter by leaping up at every jolt.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • The tramp was a gentleman whose riding costume was torn and muddied, and who looked "gashly," though he spoke with the manner and authority which Binns, the carter, recognised as that of one of the "gentry" addressing a day-labourer.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • He became more and more "gashly," and a certain awful light in his eyes alarmed the carter by leaping up at every jolt.

    The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • Those who like a good "gashly" book should, my Baronite says, forthwith send for _Lord Wastwater_ (BLACKWOOD).

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 Various 1876

  • "gashly," though he spoke with the manner and authority which Binns, the carter, recognised as that of one of the "gentry" addressing a day-labourer.

    The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • Master turned gashly pail, and sprung to the other side of the coach, as if a serpint had stung him.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning, the livid copse in the charnill was not payler than the gashly De la Pluche!

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning, the livid copse in the charnill was not payler than the gashly De la Pluche!

    Burlesques 2006

  • It does seem so gashly and unchristian altogether.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • We let them go, and bent over our friend, lying with a very gashly look by the body of the MacDonald, a man well up in years, now in the last throes, a bullet-wound in his neck and the blood frothing at his mouth.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

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