Ghastlier [adjective]

Most of Washington’s seasons under Snyder blend together, a ghastly mush of failed quarterbacks, free agent busts and general ineptitude.

We have long known that the natural world is replete with grisly cases of predation, parasitism, a universe of ghastly horrors all generated by natural selection and unleavened by the slightest ethical qualms on the part of perpetrators.

The explanation of his mysterious earlier moods offered itself with a clarity that was ghastly.

In a paroxysm of rage and fear, he gave the final order, and the Well of Cawnpore thereby attained its ghastly immortality.

Native rumors had brought the news of the massacre at Cawnpore, though the ghastly tragedy of the Well was yet to come.

But the simulacra of certain ghastly events that took place under that roof in past days still continue.

He could not fail to note the different effects he and his cousin produced in her—the ghastly difference.

Something looked ghastly familiar about that head with the broad white forehead and expressive mouth, so sweet and sad.

Of course it would be bad enough if the fellow played well; but you never heard such ghastly noises as he makes!

Was it possible, she reflected, that he had actually become aware of the ghastly truth?