"ghastly man" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used as a descriptive phrase to refer to a man who is particularly eerie, frightening, or unpleasant in appearance or behavior. Example: The old abandoned house was said to be inhabited by a ghastly man, with sunken eyes and a twisted smile, who was rumored to be a ghost.
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 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.
Distressed by what Mr. Huhne had done to his mother, the youth responded to overtures for understanding with expletive-littered repudiations in which he said, "You are the most ghastly man I have ever known," "I hate you" and "You make me sick".
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.
Its summits are like meetings of some ghastly men's club.
"If I vote for you and you get in will you promise to do something about stopping those ghastly men behaving like bloody public-school boys and running parliament as if it was an efficient business?" Pakes assures her that he will and that he is the governor of a nearby primary school.
"You do seem to be the most ghastly little man," I greeted the chap then accused of plotting against William Hague and trying lucklessly to bully MPs into voting for Michael Portillo in the Conservative leadership contest.
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.
