1
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
Still, Master Raymond’s somewhat spooky nature, as well as his appearance in Gabaldon’s novella The Space Between, lends an otherworldly possibility to the whole affair.
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
Its spooky view of the fictional, eponymous town in Washington was rendered all the more haunting by Angelo Badalamenti’s score, and the mysteries upon mysteries of the plot generated endless speculation (and some irritation) among fans.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
The nighttime celebration embraces the spooky season with haunted scare zones and immersive mazes.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
Clever and creepy, this is a great horror movie just in time for spooky season.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025
Its spooky view of the fictional, eponymous town in Washington was rendered all the more haunting by Angelo Badalamenti’s score, and the mysteries upon mysteries of the plot generated endless speculation (and some irritation) among fans.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
The nighttime celebration embraces the spooky season with haunted scare zones and immersive mazes.
—Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2025
Clever and creepy, this is a great horror movie just in time for spooky season.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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Alain Delon plays his excitable, passionate nephew, and the luminous Claudia Cardinale the daughter of a local bureaucrat whose romance with Delon becomes the vessel by which the Prince’s family will maintain its power in the future.—
Kevin Lincoln,
Vulture,
20 Jan. 2025
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As an actor, Branagh has a voice that’s high, excitable, and light, and his physicality possesses a tomcat sneakiness.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2024
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Fred Rogers was beaten with a hammer, and his wife Edwina was killed with a single gunshot to the head Comments The gruesome murders of a Houston couple 60 years ago remain one of the most eerie unsolved cases in the city’s history.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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But Lynch, who died last week, at seventy-eight, made films in which every cheerful surface seemed to obscure an eerie reality.—
Joshua Rothman,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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Some parents are nervous to send their kids back to the center, given the air quality concerns and its proximity to the burn area.—
Kate Sequeira,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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Ellie is nervous, and so naturally, her dead lesbian aunt manifests as an unwanted spiritual gay guide.—
Sadie Collins,
Them,
24 Jan. 2025
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Brody — still mostly unknown in Hollywood — got sick at the beginning of production, lost 30 pounds and poured himself into the haunting role of the virtuoso.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2025
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Some of the most powerful images created as part of the mural initiative reside on a haunting, decayed block of Edison Concept Houses, constructed in 1913 by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel from inventor Thomas Edison’s patent for single-pour concrete homes.—
Patricia Leigh Brown,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan. 2025
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In The Life with Zac Posen Celebrities The 73 Best Answers in 73 Questions The predatory aspects of 21st-century fandom get a brilliant treatment in Lurker, a creepy, gripping debut from filmmaker Alex Russell, a writer on Dave, The Bear, and Beef.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
3 Feb. 2025
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One of the clips, which showed everything that hangs from the ceiling swaying, noises which sound like footsteps and the creepy attic, went viral, with more than 3.6 million views and 351,600 likes on TikTok in a matter of days.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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