ghastily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adv

"[…] in their various attitudes of death / My murdered children’s mute and eyeless sculls / Glared ghastily upon me."
"When he tosseth his head, / The drear-white steed, / And ghastily champeth the last moon-ray,— / What angel there / Can lead him away, / That the living may rule for the Dead?"
"Johnnie’s face […] is ghastily beaten, bloodied, cut and swollen, eyes shut, neck limp;"

Apparently ghastly + -ly.

more ghastily (comparative) most ghastily (superlative)

ghastlily

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