ghastly

Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal.

• Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
• His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

Horrifyingly shocking.

• Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Extremely bad.colloquialdated

• The play was simply ghastly.

In a ghastly manner.

• Her face was ghastly pale, and perhaps rendered still more so by the blueish light of the fire.
• The officer in charge gave a sudden warning cry and flung out his arms towards the captain, who, turning still ghastlier pale, called out: “Lower the other boats. Lower away, I say—both of them.”