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spookery

American  
[spook-er-ee] / ˈspuk ər i /

noun

  1. events, actions, stories, or other things that are spooky.

  2. the quality of being spooky; spookiness.

  3. Informal. espionage.


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The former director of national intelligence, now 77, was born and raised in the world of spookery.

From Washington Post ● May 22, 2018

In the annals of British spookery, who could surpass his sang froid?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015

But more than a dead-on horror show, it’s a homage to cinematic spookery.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2011

His father was a spiv, at school he felt like a secret agent infiltrating the upper classes, and writing was a response to his growing sense of the futility of spookery.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2010

But how far this ancient religious Medium can go in the spirit-world, and how honest he might be in his otherworldliness, let those say who have experience in spookery and table-rapping.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

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