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Its quality isn't the horror itself but the ghoulish environment and subtle danger that lies beneath, being a whodunit occult film that never lets up, keeping us guessing on the true nature of the terrors up until the bitter end.
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Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Looking just as suave, Consuelos wore a floral, black-and-gold bullfighter suit with ghoulish makeup to match his wife’s skeleton face paint.
—Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
So longtime fans may be understandably disappointed that many of these memorable undersea creatures see limited screen time, elbowed aside in favor of the nefarious ghost pirate the Flying Dutchman and his ghoulish crew.
—Justin Lowe, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Aquarius Looking for a ghoulish time?
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ghoulish
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Trilogy is disturbing and alluring, with its ghostly production and chillingly misanthropic undercurrent.—
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This isn’t the first time that Beatriz has drawn ghostly spirits out of Mexican history.—
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Their spectral fingerprint is also narrower than even narrow-line quasars.—
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The 163-inch display introduces an industry-first four-primary RGBY MicroLED architecture, adding yellow to address a spectral gap between 500 and 600 nanometers that can mute color fidelity in conventional MicroLED panels.—
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This came despite Golden State being a ghastly 5 of 22 from behind the arc.—
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In the nineties, ghastly revelations about the mining conditions in countries such as Sierra Leone, shed harsh light on the back end of the business.—
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The leaps in time have the eerie effect of effacing time—the layered succession of images implying their simultaneity in Lidia’s mind.—
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The absence of noise left Juszczyk with an eerie sense of displacement.—
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The first lady opted for a simple, non-spooky aesthetic, lining the stairs and walkways outside with pumpkins and fall leaves.—
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Or, any other non-spooky board game would do.—
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The ultimate Christmastime tradition ought to be repeat viewings of BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas TV movie series, and its pinnacle, the haunting Whistle and I'll Come to You (available on AMC+ and YouTube).—
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And, in several haunting instances, scenes aboard his helicopter.—
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After a creepy launch video followed by wowing us with backflips and dance moves, Boston Dynamics has finally gotten down to business.—
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For roughly 25 years, Fear Factor has tested gag reflexes and amplified fears of snakes, spiders, and all manner of creepy-crawlies.—
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His work is marked by unusual, even bizarre, material choices that encrust spatial compositions reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative open space plans.—
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Some unnamed Chicago bartender in the early 1880s had the improbable idea of taking a Whiskey Sour and adding a little red wine to the top, inventing in a bizarre flash of insightone of the great warm weather whiskey drinks of our time.—
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“Ghoulish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ghoulish. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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