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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
His expertise in the Italian classics summons Nick into the orbit of a mafia don (Malkovich, playing his usual creepy villain and entirely behind a desk) and out of grief over the sudden death of his daughter and, hopefully, out of his spiritual complacency, too.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
The story is set on a long-range spaceship, not unlike that movie’s Nostromo, where a Xenomorph — with some help from the eyeball monster and our other new creepy-crawlies — kills off the crew until only one member is left.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Now trapped in Prater’s creepy vault of horrors with the dead body of possibly his last friend doesn’t bode well for New York’s newest UrCar rideshare driver.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
The story is set on a long-range spaceship, not unlike that movie’s Nostromo, where a Xenomorph — with some help from the eyeball monster and our other new creepy-crawlies — kills off the crew until only one member is left.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
This may yield additional, creepier, and crawler results.
—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Now trapped in Prater’s creepy vault of horrors with the dead body of possibly his last friend doesn’t bode well for New York’s newest UrCar rideshare driver.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for creepy
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The Wax Child is an eerie, unsettling book about a group of women who have apparently been possessed and empowered by a tall and headless Devil.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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Uckotter’s eerie depictions of attics, slip dresses, and toys calls to mind the cinematic worlds created by David Lynch.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That's depicted in a disturbing, if somewhat inscrutable, scene.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Possibly, something disturbing will occur because someone has decided to make emotional demands on you.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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In turn, chickens have become a powerful — if not somewhat unsettling — example of how acutely humans can dictate the evolutionary destiny of other species.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Having previously allowed Alessia Russo, Ona Batlle and Mary Earps to run their contracts into the final stages — a situation the club say was unsettling for the squad — United were determined not to make the same error.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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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Maddie is talented, warm, funny and kind but also anxious, plagued with low self-esteem cultivated by a traumatic childhood.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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The other may be unsure, though not opposed, but anxious about leaving family and community.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Creepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creepy. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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