ghoulish

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ghoulish

/ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/

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adjective more ghoulish · most ghoulish

Of or pertaining to ghouls. Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers.
Similar: ghouly
Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing. We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.
Fascinated by corpses; morbid. We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration.

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@misc{ghoulish_2026,
  title = {ghoulish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ghoulish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}