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Recent Examples of doomy Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025 And as Brown’s book races toward its elaborate climax, his (and Langdon’s) breathless effusions about the neuro-technological progress that awaits us sound jarringly out of sync with the anxious, doomy present. Book Marks september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 On the one hand, the music nestled alongside the doomy Goth rock of the Cure and Siouxie and the Banshees. David Chiu, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 The book is narrated by a woman left to raise Renata, the dull and doomy teen-age daughter of a philandering husband who has abandoned them. Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024 James joined local band Death, adding free-ranging alto sax solos to its doomy sound derived from the Stooges and the Velvet Underground. Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024 The song begins with a jangly blues guitar lick before kicking into a doomy metal riff that sounds custom built for Osbourne’s voice. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doomy
Adjective
  • Several stories account for the ominous name of the stark, forbidding mountains.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Their double life soon gets complicated when a rival boy band harboring a sinister secret begins stealing their fans.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Candyman, the Candyman franchise (1992–1999; 2021) Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) finds out that adoration and horror don't mix when she is faced with the attachment of the sinister Candyman (Tony Todd) in the 1992 film classic.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For bones, spirits, and some menacing dolls, here’s where to go for a fright.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But an uninspired and shallow story – which includes a rape scene demanded by the studio – hampers his attempts to entice us with a chilling and menacing tone.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Doomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doomy. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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