Did they get the settings wrong - had my armpit/breast been irradiated by some ghastly error?

As if to make sure that their lead remained safe, the Mets committed two more ghastly errors tonight, helping the Dodgers to a 7-5 victory in the first game of a three-game series at Dodger Stadium.

He didn't realize it, but he had just made a ghastly error.

"It would have been a ghastly error!"

His only explanation for the diamonds in the bracelet that he had sold to Merrill Ashton was that it must have been a ghastly error.

Mr. Richter flicked the first tone like a grace note, correct in Prokofiev but here a ghastly error, illiteracy pure and simple.

The Mets do not generally commit the kind of ghastly errors that wind up on blooper videos.

Some ghastly error had been made, some terrible miscarriage of purpose.

'See here, boy,' he said gently, 'if Briffe really did transmit on September twenty-ninth, then either there's been some ghastly error or - well, the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.'

Can't think what the police department is coming to to make such a ghastly error.