ghoul
has definitions from the fields of folklore,law,criminal law
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)By preying on the sick , by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate , by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical_care , these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity . In California , a_few years ago , a ghoul by the name of H._F._Bell sold electric blankets as a cure for cancer . `` Unfortunately '' , says Chief_Postal_Inspector_David_H._Stephens , who has prosecuted many device quacks , `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called_up in court '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (folklore) an evil spirit or ghost
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