scary
causing fright or alarm.
easily frightened; timid.
Origin of scary
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How to use scary in a sentence
Which does she find scarier—the Aussie tabloids or Taliban marauders?
Halloween in France suddenly got scarier than anybody wanted.
What [my doctor] was telling me was a lot scarier than I thought.
But still, HPV carries a lot of unknown health consequences, which makes it scarier.
“Hologram Michael Jackson was scarier than the ‘Thriller’ video,” said Buzzfeed.
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Those hackers were a lot scarier than Lester and Perry, but they were still lovable and fascinating in their own way.
Makers | Cory DoctorowAnd they see somethin' scarier to them than a hundred strangers with guns—they see ME!
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British Dictionary definitions for scary
/ (ˈskɛərɪ) /
causing fear or alarm; frightening
easily roused to fear; timid
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