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as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a spooky horse shying at shadows
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
a spooky tale of strange hauntings and mysterious reincarnations
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Recent Examples of spooky
The Crocodile is opening its new waterfront concert series with the spooky guitar sounds of Hermanos Gutiérrez.
Oodalalee: Concerts at Pier 62 will take place at Seattle’s Waterfront Park, south of the famous Pike Place market and managed by the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Park.
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Dave Brooks, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
Starting with a spooky second line parade moving through the French Quarter, the party moved to the Toulouse Theater, which featured plenty of cosplay and fantastical costumes, including Shudder stars and horror drag artists The Boulet Brothers.
—William Earl, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
This weekend, April 12-13, every streamer and theater decided to mark the return or premiere of their spookiest, most dystopian projects.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The Original Misfits The desert is going to get spooky when horror-punk pioneers the Misfits close out the Outdoor Theatre on Saturday night.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Dave Brooks, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
Starting with a spooky second line parade moving through the French Quarter, the party moved to the Toulouse Theater, which featured plenty of cosplay and fantastical costumes, including Shudder stars and horror drag artists The Boulet Brothers.
—William Earl, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
This weekend, April 12-13, every streamer and theater decided to mark the return or premiere of their spookiest, most dystopian projects.
—Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The Original Misfits The desert is going to get spooky when horror-punk pioneers the Misfits close out the Outdoor Theatre on Saturday night.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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Its participants are easily excitable and just as effortlessly aggrieved, their collective nervous system tied somewhat intrinsically to social media notifications.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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And if Django’s Billy Crash tapped into Goggins’s ability to thrive with brutal spite, Mannix plays more to Goggins’s excitable energy and capacity for being clever (even when his character seems to be anything but).—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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Speaking of eerie dramas, Nicole Kidman is reprising her role for Season 2 of Hulu’s thriller, Nine Perfect Strangers, arriving on May 22.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Some jumped out of street corners to greet you with a quest and an eerie smile.—
Jamal Michel,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Dellow was nervous about rush hour traffic, but the Uber dropped Nikishin off at 6:45 p.m. at the airport.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Your younger colleague is nervous about each conversation.—
Jay Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The director also discussed his approach to specific technical elements, including a haunting, silent earthquake scene that was designed not to trigger audiences who had experienced actual seismic events.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2025
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Dennis Quaid is set to mark a haunting role in his filmography: Playing a serial killer.—
Vincent Perella,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
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Gabriela’s stalker exit arc & likely return DEADLINE: After being put through the ringer the last three seasons, Gabriela got to end her arc with a creepy stalker storyline.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2025
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Less time zipping between love interests will hopefully mean more time to solve the mystery of the creepy texter who began sending her cryptic, threatening messages in the final moments of Season 1.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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