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  • adjective superlative form of ghostly: most ghostly.

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Examples

  • The one thing that fits those specifications is a black hole, an object so massive and hence so gravitationally powerful that not even the ghostliest ray of light can escape its clench.

    Shedding Light On A Black Hole 2008

  • I imparted my secret to him, because I had never quite forgotten his throwing his cap at the bell; because I had, on another occasion, noticed something very like a fur cap, lying not far from the bell, one night when it had burst out ringing; and because I had remarked that we were at our ghostliest whenever he came up in the evening to comfort the servants.

    The Haunted House 2007

  • I imparted my secret to him, because I had never quite forgotten his throwing his cap at the bell; because I had, on another occasion, noticed something very like a fur cap, lying not far from the bell, one night when it had burst out ringing; and because I had remarked that we were at our ghostliest whenever he came up in the evening to comfort the servants.

    The Haunted House 2007

  • I imparted my secret to him, because I had never quite forgotten his throwing his cap at the bell; because I had, on another occasion, noticed something very like a fur cap, lying not far from the bell, one night when it had burst out ringing; and because I had remarked that we were at our ghostliest whenever he came up in the evening to comfort the servants.

    The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

  • It was as if all the ghosts in Hades had suddenly piped up at their shrillest and ghostliest.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved.

    The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • And so I told the faithful Johnson to bring wee Tinkle Tom along, and get him up to the little stage, and I faced my audience in the midst of a storm of the ghostliest applause I ever hope to hear!

    A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder 1910

  • I stood in front of them and did the ghostliest things till I was clean tired out and discouraged.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • To put it philosophically, she made the mistake of avoiding all realities, and yet marrying herself to the hardest of realities, a working man; so it was inevitable that she should go back at last to the region of shadows and mate with that ghostliest of all unrealities, the non-working man.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

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