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ghoul
  1. (mythology, folklore) A spirit said to feed on corpses.
  2. A graverobber.
  3. A person with an undue interest in death and corpses.
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    1. “A slight shudder slid over him, footsteps on his grave, a shadowy ghoul with its gargoyle grin threatening to exhume long-buried corpses.”
      “On Friday, Halloween was again on everyone's minds and even the odd goblin or ghoul turned up to spend the day with them!”
      “Marty was one of the lucky few to portray both a ghoul and a biker in that legendary horror film.”
ghoulie
  1. (informal) ghoul (ghostly spirit)
  2. (bridge) contract bridge in which only goulash hands are played (usually used in the plural)
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  4. Examples:
    1. “In the same week, a Sea Of Souls ghoulie channels free electricity through an unsuspecting girlie, who spends the episode trying to get rid of her buckshee leccy.”
      “After Evensong on Sunday Beddoes suddenly saw the ghoulie Tom in the garden.”
      “The tale that finally raised my hackles crept up as unexpectedly as any ghoulie or ghostie.”
ghoulification
  1. (humorous) The process of somebody turning into a ghoul.
ghoulishness
  1. The quality of being ghoulish
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Not ghoulishness, nor a ritual piece of Sunday morning liberal self-flagellation.”
      “There is absolutely positively and unequivocally zero news value in this ghoulishness.”
      “This cartoon will thrill older children with its ghoulishness, which is admirably extreme, but never excessive.”
ghoulies
  1. plural of ghoulie
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One was for the Madonna-Prince boppers, one for the Morrisey-Cure ghoulies.”
      “Lars von Trier calls his horror schlocker about a couple facing ghoulies in the woods his most important film, but he can barely keep a straight face.”
      “Do they break bread with the gentry Or feed where ghoulies fed?”
ghouls
  1. plural of ghoul
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Why, the defamation of our good names paints us as remorseless ghouls bent on world domination!”
      “We have 103 different types of monsters, and that doesn't count variations, like all of the meshed zombies and ghouls.”
      “Instead of the crass commercialism shoveled at us come Christmastime, we get to dress up as brain-eating ghouls and sexy pixies.”
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