creepiness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Two horror-movie odes are “Chain Saw,” which has the LP’s fastest tempo at nearly 180 beats per minute, and “I Don’t Wanna Go Down to the Basement,” a romp on the fear of subterranean creepiness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 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
“I did see creepiness immediately,” Kennedy said of Epstein.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2024
Not only the creepiness of Seward Park and the creepiness that just happened at Dick’s, but all creepiness, all powerlessness, all moments where you feel your fate in someone else’s hands.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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