Sentence examples similar to ghastly trick from inspiring English sources

Maybe it's not all politics of the most ghastly, obvious, self-hating, the fix-is-in, trick-the-rubes kind.

A neat trick, but the effect is somewhat spoilt on the back wall by four ghastly abstract paintings which frankly would be better off in the shadows, if not in a skip outside.

Ghastly, dear.

Ghastly values, ghastly people.

Ghastly stench.

How ghastly.

Ghastly political failure?

It was ghastly".

Renoir: great or ghastly?

What a ghastly waste.

Sometimes he looked ghastly.