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ghoulish

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ghoulish
adjective
1 the torchlight gave his face a ghoulish appearance:
macabre, grisly, gruesome, grotesque, ghastly, morbid.
2 he had a ghoulish hobby of collecting “In Memoriam” notices:
unhealthy, perverted, death-obsessed, morbid;
horrible, unwholesome, revolting;
informal sick.