ghastlier

Taking a breather from our Gulf Coast miasma in order to focus on an even ghastlier blight of cultural crude washing up on American shores.

Will Durst: Vampire Nation

I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable.

Arise, geeks

Ten times ghastlier than if it had been real, the chorus wailed and ululated back and forth along immeasurable distances -- became one yell again -- and went howling down into earth's bowels as if the last of a phantom pack were left behind and yelling to be waited for.

In The Time Of Light

They were stumbling backward, looks of terror spread across their faces, which looked even ghastlier in the torchlight.

Sent

But in Milwaukee, as everywhere else these multiple murders have unfolded, the last chapter was ghastlier than fiction.

The Secrets Of Apt. 213

By seven we had finished breakfast, and passed into the ghastlier solitudes above, I riding as far as what, rightly, or wrongly, are called the “Lava Beds,” an expanse of large and small boulders, with snow in their crevices.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Peak, which looked yet grander and ghastlier as we crossed an attendant mountain 11,000 feet high.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

The house in Thavies Inn had bills in the windows annoucing that it was to let, and it looked dirtier and gloomier and ghastlier than ever.

Bleak House

In the midst of that excited gaiety, to which, until lately, he had been so long a stranger, would sometimes intervene paroxysms of the blackest despair, all the ghastlier for the contrast, and with a suddenness so abrupt and overwhelming, that one might have fancied him crossed by the shadow of some terrific apparition.

The Evil Guest

Marston twice or thrice essayed to speak; his face was white as death, and had he beheld the specter of the murdered baronet himself, he could not have met the sight with a countenance of ghastlier horror.

The Evil Guest