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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
Even this smaller studio, with spooky backdrops and featuring dramatic uplighting, is elaborate.
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James Grebey, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
Wilson had pitched a scene that emphasized the spooky presence of a mysterious extraterrestrial remnant, a plot point that becomes more central in the subsequent books.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
His idiosyncratic characters have become frequent fodder for spooky season, and Threapleton’s pipe-puffing, smoky-eyed novitiate Liesl is destined to join their dress-up ranks.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Hallmark is expanding its Haul Out the Holly movie series with a third installment, Haul Out the Halloween, set during a slightly spookier holiday.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 6 June 2025
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James Grebey, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
Wilson had pitched a scene that emphasized the spooky presence of a mysterious extraterrestrial remnant, a plot point that becomes more central in the subsequent books.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
His idiosyncratic characters have become frequent fodder for spooky season, and Threapleton’s pipe-puffing, smoky-eyed novitiate Liesl is destined to join their dress-up ranks.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Hallmark is expanding its Haul Out the Holly movie series with a third installment, Haul Out the Halloween, set during a slightly spookier holiday.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
Adjective
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In 2023 and the first months of 2024, his name cropped up in a lot of excitable articles in the Rio de Janeiro press.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The telling of the entire story of America, after all, calls into question the greatness that Donald Trump pledges to restore, and agitates a base that remains threatened and excitable by our multicultural reality.—
Kevin Sack,
Time,
3 June 2025
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Eisenberg completed an eerie song praising West Elm as an oracular realm, then asked Scardino to write a short monologue to set it up.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
29 June 2025
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Watching his son evolve from a 4-star recruit out of Columbus High School in Miami to an eventual first-round pick out of Michigan State, Richardson doesn’t get too nervous or overly excited when Jase is on the court.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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But with Wirtz, there was suddenly an effort not to do that; the media got nervous about calling it a record.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Despite his persistent claims of innocence, Chester Weger lived six decades in prison after confessing to the haunting 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders of three suburban Chicago women who were attacked during a hike in broad daylight.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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But what began as an ordinary evening would soon become one of the region's most haunting cold cases.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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Although Gi-hun wants to save as many people as possible, he’s forced to continue playing the remaining games, including a terrifying round of double Dutch involving the creepy giant dolls.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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As the creepy trailer begins, the deserted ghost town is put on full display.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
27 June 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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