creepier; creepiest
1
: producing a nervous shivery apprehension
a creepy horror story
also
: eerie
2
: of, relating to, or being a creep : annoyingly unpleasant
a creepy old man
Examples of creepy in a Sentence
There's something creepy about that guy.
a fascinating but creepy stage show by an offbeat magician
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Written about British occultist Aleister Crowley and released in the United States a year after Osbourne’s album debuted, the song projected creepy organ sounds straight from Dracula’s coffin before monster guitar playing from Rhoades drove a stake through any sympathy for the devil.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Others are not so great—like week-long heat advisories and unwelcome house guests in the form of creepy, crawly millipedes.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 July 2025
The building once served as a fire department and later a department store, with quirky touches like dressing rooms turned into bathrooms and a basement filled with a creepy doll shrine.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 18 July 2025
The effort to view a person from a distance, to observe their actions from an external perspective, doesn’t have to be creepy.
—Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Others are not so great—like week-long heat advisories and unwelcome house guests in the form of creepy, crawly millipedes.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 July 2025
The building once served as a fire department and later a department store, with quirky touches like dressing rooms turned into bathrooms and a basement filled with a creepy doll shrine.
—Endia Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 18 July 2025
The effort to view a person from a distance, to observe their actions from an external perspective, doesn’t have to be creepy.
—Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for creepy
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“Creepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creepy. Accessed 27 Jul. 2025.
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