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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
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Disappearing from the table, my father returned with that eerie icon of the naked woman.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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But despite its new role, the eerie stories remain.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At times brutal and always volatile, the album functions as a sort of electro-shock therapy applied from the shoulders down, layering hard beats, ambient whorls, and nervous acid ticks to trigger a state of full-body rapture.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
18 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, sellers might get nervous if deal activity slows down.—
James Nelson,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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This is a haunting, unpredictable novel that’s hard to shake after reading.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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With a limited color palette and very spare design, the show subverts the commonplace elements of an office and invents a haunting visual language all its own that creeps you out while drawing you in.—
Charlotte Collins,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2025
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Paul Henreid’s Dead Ringer is a creepy exploration of how identical twins survive without each other.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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There’s a terrifically creepy scene in which the vampires, led by O’Connell’s fiery-eyed Remmick, go into an Irish step dance (at this point there are Black vampires who’ve been bitten and are part of the cult), and the message is: Give up your freedom and join us!—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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