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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
a fascinating but creepy stage show by an offbeat magician
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as in disturbing
marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings
a creepy aura about the abandoned farmhouse—as though something horrific had happened there
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Recent Examples of creepy
Give us some creepy synthetic tunes.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The neighborhood is home to boutiques and specialty shops, including the independent two-story bookstore The Book Loft, where staffers curate their favorite creepy reads.
—Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
While Sting wrote the song’s famously creepy lyrics, Summers has been emphatic over the decades that his guitarwork, as well as the studio collaboration among the trio, was essential for its massive success.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
And things get creepy and bloody from there after some foreplay.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The neighborhood is home to boutiques and specialty shops, including the independent two-story bookstore The Book Loft, where staffers curate their favorite creepy reads.
—Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
While Sting wrote the song’s famously creepy lyrics, Summers has been emphatic over the decades that his guitarwork, as well as the studio collaboration among the trio, was essential for its massive success.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
And things get creepy and bloody from there after some foreplay.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creepy
Adjective
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Making conditions worse, the vessel seems to be leaking an eerie, milky substance.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar B1509-58 — a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the disturbing footage, Raja was seen entering the ring and picking up Smith above his head before slamming him hard on the mat.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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In both cases, dispatchers heard what sounded like gunshots in the background of the calls — lending a disturbing realism.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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Her voice, later verified by outlets including The Washington Post and Sky News, became one of the most haunting symbols of the war.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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And in 2022, Semafor worked with an artist to illustrate and animate an interview using AI tools to create a haunting video interpretation of life in Ukraine under Russian occupation.—
Gina Chua,
semafor.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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And that helped to resolve that weird uneasy tension in my head.—
Maria Reva
September 3,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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The safe-haven asset offers investors a hedge against an uneasy financial environment as a sharp hiring slowdown coincides with a steady uptick of inflation, according to analysts.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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For some, the realism is unsettling.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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But if a person, a living, breathing human being, is going to potentially be looking at their prompts, that seems outrageous and extremely unsettling.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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After a turbulent few weeks, things only became more tense when Sean McLaughlin and Allyshia Gupta claimed to have information that could destroy the relationship.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The first section is reasonably tense and engrossing.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Against Świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, net cords had given her safe harbor.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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From anxious to adoptable Ginger is now considered adoptable and will soon be ready to look for her forever home.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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That’s a rich dichotomy, and whenever the narrative voice drills into the specificity of Ruth’s anxious imagination, the reader is rewarded.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Creepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creepy. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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