gashful

comparative more gashful · superlative most gashful

1. obsoleteghastly; hideous; frightful.

   gashfull, horrid, meagre, terrible, ugly shape

   1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant notes upon Don Quixot

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   This premised, up the gashful horror sprang, Like a tall pyramid of fire, belch'd from The entrails of Hawaiian hills

   1859, John Delavan Bryant, Redpemtion, A Poem

   a gashful sight met our gaze! There was that poor woman stretched out on the kitchen floor, her face covered with blood, where she'd fainted, and hit her forehead against the sharp edge of the table

   1882, Sophie May, Janet, a Poor Heiress