creepiness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Executive produced by the Duffer Brothers of ‘Stranger Things,’ this series follows an engaged couple on an overlong and aimless journey filled with creepiness and dread.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The fog had descended, and there was “this sense of creepiness, of this wild, feral place.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
By the end of that first episode, Martha’s neediness has begun to shade into creepiness.
From New York Times • May 1, 2024
“I did see creepiness immediately,” Kennedy said of Epstein.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2024
He had wanted spirit powers he’d kept secret from Lázaro—whatever creepiness those Sorrows had taught him.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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