The phrase "a ghastly man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or morally repugnant.
Example: "The townspeople spoke in hushed tones about the ghastly man who lived on the outskirts, known for his cruel deeds and sinister presence."
Alternatives: "a dreadful man" or "a horrible man".
The trailer closed with a close-up of a ghastly man whose lips had been sewn together.
This is strangely backhanded, since Rayner's last, The Apologist, was a very entertaining high-concept farce about mendacious food writing, self-serving posh guilt and the absurdity of celeb culture, its anti-hero a ghastly man in a grotesque world.
His publishers announce The Oyster House Siege as "Jay Rayner's pulsating break-out... a decisive move away from his earlier comic novels". This is strangely backhanded, since Rayner's last, The Apologist, was a very entertaining high-concept farce about mendacious food writing, self-serving posh guilt and the absurdity of celeb culture, its anti-hero a ghastly man in a grotesque world.
Those of us who had managed to beg, borrow and steal visas from the horrid ministry of information (a daily lesson in humiliation, we were called into the office by a ghastly man who would only give visas if I brought him an array of French cheeses and Rogaine for his thinning hair) were stuck reporting exactly what they wanted us to do.
The nightmare-inducing image features a ghastly man with red eyes totting a snub-nosed revolver.
In a cultural setting such as this the idea seems almost benign, and he spent a large part of his career embroiled in a row with Wagner about this very issue (I wasn't much of a fan of Wagner's music, and the more you get to know about him the less you like him; a couple of stirring tunes aside, he comes across as a truly ghastly man).
I can't be the only person who has finally admitted after all these years of pretending otherwise that Arthur Scargill was a ghastly little man who needed to be trodden on.
You are the most ghastly man I have ever known.
In another, the son wrote: "You are the most ghastly man I've ever known.
The extent of the family rifts caused by the case were laid bare in a series of text messages between Huhne and his youngest son, Peter, who called his father the "most ghastly man I have ever known" and threatened to tell police about the crime.
