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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
Or, any other non-spooky board game would do.
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Nov. 2025
Fear not—these last-minute costume options are easy to make at home and will look fabulous even when up against the people who were able to plan ahead for the spookiest night of the year.
—Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
What’s spookier than Halloween this fall?
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
As what many Michiganders consider the spookiest night of the year approaches, the National Weather Service is predicting a pretty typical Halloween in Detroit.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 1 Nov. 2025
Fear not—these last-minute costume options are easy to make at home and will look fabulous even when up against the people who were able to plan ahead for the spookiest night of the year.
—Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
What’s spookier than Halloween this fall?
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
As what many Michiganders consider the spookiest night of the year approaches, the National Weather Service is predicting a pretty typical Halloween in Detroit.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
Adjective
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The excitable kids had been instructed several times to give Bryce Young room.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2026
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Myhrvold, now 66 and still the CEO of Intellectual Ventures, is jolly and excitable in conversation.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2026
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When an Arietid streaks across the daytime sky, the ionized trail will bounce distant signals right into the antenna, resulting in an eerie short burst of music or voice breaking through the static.—
Jules-Pierre Malartre,
Space.com,
8 June 2026
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Premiering at the 2016 SXSW festival, this true crime documentary highlights the disturbing attack on Payton Leutner by her 12-year-old friends, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, who slashed her 19 times in a bizarre attempt to appease the fictional, eerie internet figure known as Slender Man.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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JPMorgan's traders are getting nervous about the state of the current stock market.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
8 June 2026
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Countless fans have taken to social media with similar issues, but some were too nervous to talk with WBZ-TV on camera for fear of it impacting their status.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
8 June 2026
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Another episode, directed by Andrew DeYoung, sees Tom accidentally ingest potent hallucinogenic mushrooms, with Rhys nailing absurdist humor and a haunting flashback.—
Emma Fraser,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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The work was haunting, elegant, and emotionally precise.—
Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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Phillips first made waves with his short Other Side of the Box, which amassed more than 30 million views on YouTube and centered on a couple who is gifted a mysterious box, to disastrous and creepy results.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
2 June 2026
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Carl caps the already difficult day by trying to impress Tom with his museum-like collection of historical battle dioramas, complete with a creepy mini-figure of Ruffage leading his Gulf War tank platoon.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 June 2026
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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