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Recent Examples of scariness
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.
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Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Jon Raymond
august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scariness
Noun
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The theater comes by its creepiness honestly.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
12 Sep. 2025
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Their play-fighting suggests a slightly incestuous, flirty relationship, that baseline creepiness of a mom who is just a little too close to her son.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Others commented on the eeriness of discovering unfamiliar images in one’s personal gallery and the realization of how default app settings can confuse or alarm users.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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There is a matter-of-factness to DP Keisuke Imamura’s flat, bright images that creates a hyperreal eeriness all the more uneasy for being the polar opposite of a horror movie’s usual dark corners and shadowy depths.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Comment sections have always attracted hatefulness and resentment; these ones just happen to encourage it more explicitly.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Scariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scariness. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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