0 the quality of being unpleasant and shocking: --
He complained about the ghastliness of the music young people listened to.
The ghastliness of Christmas celebrations often drove me to spend the holiday season abroad.
The judge said the jury must consider the horror and the ghastliness of the crime.
"Life in the trenches was not all ghastliness," he recalled.
If your humanity is to be delivered from the horrors and ghastliness of war, man must remain true to the ideal of fraternity and love and peace.
I suggest that the people responsible for the ghastliness of those areas should be called in to clean them, up, by a special tax if necessary.
Clause 103 shows that parish councils or even parish meetings may be the authority, so that the situation takes on a new ghastliness.
They will also realise the full ghastliness of war and the futility of wasted lives.
People were horrified by the ghastliness of that situation.
I hope everything will settle back to the way it used to be, before all this ghastliness.
Her views on the ghastliness of care homes may be a common experience.
