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Recent Examples of creepiness
Maybe that’s the show trying to mitigate the potential creepiness.
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Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
But there’s a line between convenience and creepiness.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
But there’s a line between convenience and creepiness.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for creepiness
Noun
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Amid the callous acts and hopeless rage of these kids—who are resourceful enough to orchestrate a high-speed heist but too disaffected for much else—a supernatural eeriness surfaces through word of mysterious lights in the sky and missing citizens.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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In Howard Schwartz’s version of Rabbinic folktales, the images and storylines of Jewish folklore become colorful, polymorphic, and wondrous while never losing an aura of ancient scariness.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Creepiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creepiness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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