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- adjective   Not ghostly ; not befitting aghost .
Etymologies
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Examples
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								No sooner did I get within spitting distance than I started to feel weird—decidedly unghostly. Masked Lou Anders 2010 
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								No sooner did I get within spitting distance than I started to feel weird—decidedly unghostly. Masked Lou Anders 2010 
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								It is the intrusion into our matter-of-fact lives of the uncanny element, which the novice so grossly misuses in his tales of premonitory dreams and visions, and of most unghostly ghosts. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett 
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								They did, however, shout with laughter when a second ghost, the assistant to the first tripped out from behind another tree with a little chirp that was distinctly unghostly. The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Janet Aldridge 
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								This boy of the unghostly cylinders and tangible magnetos had never seen a haunted house. Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918 
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								It was the most unghostly thing in the world, with its lavender border and its faint scent. The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917 
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								My voice, which I take it had nothing ghostly in it, and still more the levelled pistol, which of all implements is the most unghostly, dispelled his dread. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912 
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								It was the most unghostly thing in the world, with its lavender border and its faint scent. 
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								Pretty soon my mind began to wander off on other things, decidedly unghostly and material things, such as my wife's shopping and how on earth I was going to cure her of her alarming tendency to take every new fad that came along and work it to death. Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906 
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								Gertrude denied having asked him to help her in any way, declaring she should have thought it useless trouble; however, she said it was a very fortunate chance, and went off to prepare her Dame's toilette in the most unghostly high spirits. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871 
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