Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being ghostly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being ghostly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
ghostly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
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Examples
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In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay 2011
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Getty Images Zola Jesus Zola Jesus is the working name of a 22-year-old woman who sounds considerably more advanced in age—maybe even into the hundreds of years, if ghostliness could be properly accounted for.
The Taming of the Scene Andy Battaglia 2011
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And as they rocked and she wept into his neck, she felt the ghostliness leave her body and felt herself, inch by inch, limb by limb, one toe and fingertip at a time, becoming real again.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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SaraphinaMarie 12:15 am: I am realizing my whole foundation of ghostliness is in YA stuff from the 1980s
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I felt lucky to have Leon as a friend, yet still I was oppressed by Hawaii, the tropical islands, their ghostliness, the way the beaches seemed just born, the mountains -- those volcanoes -- so ancient, the crags so spectral.
Beard 2010
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And as they rocked and she wept into his neck, she felt the ghostliness leave her body and felt herself, inch by inch, limb by limb, one toe and fingertip at a time, becoming real again.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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And as they rocked and she wept into his neck, she felt the ghostliness leave her body and felt herself, inch by inch, limb by limb, one toe and fingertip at a time, becoming real again.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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And as they rocked and she wept into his neck, she felt the ghostliness leave her body and felt herself, inch by inch, limb by limb, one toe and fingertip at a time, becoming real again.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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Has ghostliness become an alternative lifestyle, too?
Witches and vampires and ghosts, oh, my! ewillett 2007
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Samuel let the sheet drop down once more, restoring himself to ghostliness, and replaced his glasses.
The Gates John Connolly 2009
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