spooky
adjective
spookily
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a word derived from
spooky.
Example Sentences
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It may also continue to haunt us forever after, as in the bone-clanking, teeth-chattering, spookily percussive 1929 animated Disney cartoon frolic, “The Skeleton Dance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
"He was staring at all three of us behind the bar, spookily," she said, "like through us – as though we weren't there."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
The overall hellish look of the 1968 print is familiar to any Angeleno who has experienced the spookily resplendent skies during the annual infernos of fire season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
According to quantum mechanics, particles can be "entangled", spookily connected so that if you manipulate one then you automatically and immediately also manipulate the other.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2022
The puppets—marionettes, he could see now that they were marionettes hanging off the wall—were spookily realistic, and yet like nothing he’d ever seen.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
