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Recent Examples of creepy Who is cultivating all these creepy vibes at the estate? Claire Franken, TVLine, 24 May 2025 The couple never imagined that such a creepy discovery would amass so much attention, although they have been fascinated by all the different insights people have shared. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025 The doll is so creepy that’s peeking out the window. Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025 Using Hyper-Granular Targeting That Feels Creepy One big fail marketers make in personalized marketing is getting too granular with data—making campaigns creepy instead of relevant. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for creepy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for creepy
Adjective
  • Lochridge cites the monitoring system for the Titan’s novel carbon fiber hull — the same system that showed eerie cracking noises.
    Adam Carlson, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • Phobias, a silent clown duo with a horror twist, brought eerie theatrics to the stage — complete with balloon popping and unsettling surprises — and successfully freaked out the judges (especially Howie Mandel).
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • The withdrawn teen obsessively draws dark spiders in class and shows a disturbing fixation on news reports of school shootings.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025
  • His disturbing legacy drew the attention of filmmaker and former HBO executive Kary Antholis, who had followed the case for decades.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Turns out, after a haunting 4-3 loss in the 2024 Memorial Cup championship to the Saginaw Spirit, Cowan had a lot left to learn and to gain in his game.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Guth landed on a more haunting and ambiguous image: Salome walking into a luminous mist, leaving mad reality behind.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the wake of multiple plane crashes, and amid erratic federal policies and denials and detentions at border crossings, summer travel in the U.S. is in an uneasy state.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
  • To the south, there’s the United Arab Emirates, where again, there has been an uneasy relationship at times.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Graham says the casting team had considered looking for an older boy, given the demands of the role and the show’s unsettling subject matter.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025
  • Human Parallels: Our Bias Toward Confident Eloquence Perhaps most unsettling is how closely this AI limitation mirrors a persistent human cognitive bias.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • But recently, her videos detailing her tense, hours-long encounter with Customs at MIA went viral.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • While the two countries have announced a temporary truce that rolled back the three-digit tariffs for 90 days, relations remain tense with ongoing feuding over chip restrictions imposed by the US.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • The video highlighted how visibly nervous Jessie was while using jokes to get through the show.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2025
  • In a video played on Thursday's episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Hamill is shown giving his opening monologue declaring his love for film when a nervous expression crosses his face.
    Mekishana Pierre Updated, EW.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • On Tires, Gerben plays Will, the anxious and unqualified son of the auto-repair chain's owner.
    EW.com, EW.com, 5 June 2025
  • As a result, children can become frustrated and anxious when trying to learn math.
    Jennifer Pierce, USA Today, 3 June 2025

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“Creepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creepy. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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