ghoulish /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/ adjective3 •Of or pertaining to ghouls.Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers. — 1910 •Fascinated by corpses; morbid.We’ll be neither ghoulish nor squeamish about death; it happens, the chances increase with age, and we need to take the possibility into consideration. — 2024 •Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery. — 1922 formsmore ghoulish · most ghoulish