Bad and Ghoulish

Bad

Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Ghoulish and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ghoulish" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Ghoulish

Ghoulish adjective - Suggesting the horror of death and decay.

Bad and ghoulish are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Ghoulish".

Nearby Word: ghoul

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / The Soup One week, due to lighting/bad makeup job/who knows, Joel's complexion looked especially ghoulish (and he had shaven off his trademark scruff, adding to it).
  • The 7th Guest — with the narrator's ghoulish puns and Cryptkeeper-style delivery, the lame lines spoken hammily by obvious non-actors, the honky-tonk closing sound track... So Bad, It's Good, and though it chased away any potential for horror, it managed to leave the mystery intact.
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