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
They have face coverings too, making menace out of the same blank-faced creepiness the villains embodied in the original film and its 2018 sequel.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
The fog had descended, and there was “this sense of creepiness, of this wild, feral place.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
In the heat-soaked world of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, creepiness was an affectation — part misdirecting figment, part metaphor.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 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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