Definition of ghostly | Bee Dictionary of English

THE ghostly, white-clad figure slowly descended the ladder.
Of Corregidor's fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly.
Singing in an Auto-Tuned monotone with little regard for melody, West sounds ghostly as he recounts his romantic failures in brutal detail.

Major League Baseball All-Time Team
Every summer, the ghostly legends of baseball's past are awakened in talks of record breaking and comparisons between those playing now and those who have had their days in an earlier era. With home run chases, names such as Roger Marris, Babe Ruth, and Mark McGwire resurface in newspaper headlines as these greats are called from their graves.
June 19, 2013 - Old Gold & Black
'The Vampire Diaries' Season 5: Arielle Kebbel says Lexi 'most likely will' return
Arielle Kebbel says, and knows, "anything is possible in Mystic Falls" when it comes to returning to "The Vampire Diaries."Not only a recurring guest star as deceased yet ghostly bloodsucker Lexi Branson on the CW series, but also the host of the "Rehash" episode recaps on the network's Web site, Kebbel maintains she has no idea whether her character actually will resurface when Season 5 begins ...
June 18, 2013 - Zap2It
Books: 'The Bookman's Tale' by Charlie Lovett
Charlie Lovett hits nearly every plot point a fan of fiction could put on a wish list for a novel: mysteries, time travel, a ghostly spirit and an ill-fated romance. Then, to make it all too good to resist, he throws in William Shakespeare.
June 18, 2013 - The Fayetteville Observer

Jack Kevorkian in Forbes
Along the docks and the palm-lined pier, "Everyone stood there and followed the boat with their eyes," Valerie Kevorkian, a dive shop operator and scuba instructor, recalled, "and then there was only emptiness ...... a ghostly feeling."
Barack Obama in Liberty Tribune
The reason I'm here is because you at this plant are doing more than building new vehicles. You're building the economy,Obama said. "There is a thriving enterprise here instead of the ghostly silence of an empty building."
Nicole Brown Simpson in Contra Costa Times
I have endeavored in this ghostly little book, to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay... Charles Dickens http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGNCSI3hHVzVNwnVrX4a0zN6EbjYQ USU The Utah Statesman (subscription) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.utahstatesman.com/news/2005/12/02/Diversions/Scrooge.Takes.Stage.At.Old.Barn.Theatre-1119424.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG9HAmtkoIIKsEl-JYQDnB6H_6RHQ Dec 2, 2005 41893 57570 ghostwriter It made it look too much like an admission of guilt," Simpson told the Palm Beach Post. "I wasn't happy with the hypothetical paragraphs. A ghostwriter wrote the whole thing, and I OK'd it. But there were a lot of inaccuracies about the case...

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