(informal) shocking. These are rather ghastly. --Levels of
Skill (6 July 1957)
(colloquial) in a very bad or unpleasant manner.
(informal) shocking.
(colloquial) in a very bad or unpleasant manner. The
student comes up with a
lot of
preconceptions and so forth, and these get in his way most ghastly, and so that his clarification on the
data which is being
given to him becomes an important part of the
communication of the
data.