spookery
- a word derived from spook.
Example Sentences
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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 Rihani, Ameen Fares
