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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
Starting with the Haunted Mansion, passengers, of drinking age, can watch waltzing ghosts and sip on spooky cocktails in the parlor dedicated to the iconic attraction or embrace their inner Jungle Cruise skipper at the Skipper Society lounge where guests will see all the nods to the iconic ride.
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Alessandra Amodio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2024
The couple's ceremony featured spooky details, including skeleton decorations, a coffin ring box and a fog machine.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Next month, her upcoming film The Man in the White Van transitions her into the darker horror genre and out of the spooky childhood stardom.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Missing spooky season?
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Alessandra Amodio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2024
The couple's ceremony featured spooky details, including skeleton decorations, a coffin ring box and a fog machine.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Next month, her upcoming film The Man in the White Van transitions her into the darker horror genre and out of the spooky childhood stardom.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
Related Articles How to transfer data from an old console to the Playstation 5 Pro
Missing spooky season?
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for spooky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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Green, an excitable optimist, isn’t particularly concerned about the future.Hank Tucker, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Know your audience, an excitable kind of reader informs the author of a piece that fails to flatter his pretensions or reinforce her most uncharitable assumptions about her political opponents.Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
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The body horror lingering at the fringes of this is very eerie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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In my inbox sit three eerie, unsolicited photographs of a crime scene.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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There’s really nothing to be nervous about, just the optics of everything.Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The tech industry has been nervous about what Trump, who now has his own social network in the form of Truth Social, might do about Section 230 the second time around.David Meyer, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2024
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Grunewald takes what could have been a forgettable crossover ‘evil team-up’ issue and crafts one of the most haunting mediations on extremism and vengeance.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Zito's modus operandi is scalping women and attaching their hair to mannequins, which probably has nothing to do with his mommy issues... Tom Savini truly works his magic in Maniac, and the special makeup effects are haunting, but the film also gets a boost from a pair of genre heavy-hitters.Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
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Luna rocked a black and red creepy clown look, while Miles dressed up and dabbed as DJ Marshmello.Colson Thayer, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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That creepy tune, which is likely surging thanks to the Halloween holiday, is back at No. 18 on the Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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