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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
Blue Prince lacks jump scares or creepy noises or a spooky presence tracing your steps, but a handful of cutscenes that occur in some rooms conjure a sense of dread.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
Things have gotten a little spooky since Emma Chamberlain last shared her Beauty Secrets with Vogue.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
Looking for some spooky souvenirs to bring back home?
—Samantha Neely, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The ominously spooky vibes are off the charts and things go very badly, very quickly for the friends.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
Things have gotten a little spooky since Emma Chamberlain last shared her Beauty Secrets with Vogue.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
Looking for some spooky souvenirs to bring back home?
—Samantha Neely, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The ominously spooky vibes are off the charts and things go very badly, very quickly for the friends.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spooky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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Groups of excitable teenage boys waited their turn to play EA FC on a bank of massive flat screen TVs.—
James Montague,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Wisner was an excitable workaholic, like a squirrel pointlessly leaping in all directions.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
15 May 2025
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Set on an eerie yet beautiful island, this book is equal parts mystery and love story.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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Scribes and sculptors, for the most part, stopped carving significant dates into stone, giving archeologists the eerie impression that Maya history had ended.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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The price of gold tends to move when markets get nervous – and so does the gold.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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It should also be noted that Demings is more than a little nervous right now about making any public promises about helping to finance a baseball stadium.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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In a beautiful collision of worlds, our talented composer Paul Banks has reinterpreted two Iggy songs in his own unique and haunting way, serving as celebration of both Iggy and the film’s themes.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
15 May 2025
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The massacre of the Jezebel’s women is a scene of shocking violence for the dystopian series, and the execution of so many women is a haunting vision June imagines when she’s then told by Nick what happened.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2025
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The doll is so creepy that’s peeking out the window.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Using Hyper-Granular Targeting That Feels Creepy One big fail marketers make in personalized marketing is getting too granular with data—making campaigns creepy instead of relevant.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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