Adjective

(en adjective)

ghastly

* {{quote-book, year=1824, author=Washington Irving, title=Tales of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=My ladies' maid, who was troubled with nerves, declared she could never sleep alone in such a "gashly , rummaging old building;" and the footman, who was a kind-hearted young fellow, did all in his power to cheer her up. }}

* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX

*:"It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days. Come in, Huck, but doan' look at his face--it's too gashly ."

* {{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Patterson White, title=The Heart of the Range, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Listen here, Swing, old-timer, I got a long and gashly tale of wickedness to pour into those lily-white mule ears of yores. }}

Adjective

(er)

Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.

a ghostly figure with a hood.

Spooky; frightening.

Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.

a ghostly confessor

* Book of Common Prayer

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

* Jeremy Taylor

One of the ghostly children of St. Jerome.