spookiness
- a word derived from spooky.
Example Sentences
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But marketing Summerween as a stand-alone holiday requires a completely different aesthetic that plays at spookiness but doesn’t totally commit.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
"I loved the idea of playing someone a bit evil and manipulative. I also loved the weirdness and spookiness of the way the story plays out," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
“So maybe some October spookiness and volatility is perfectly normal.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
His solution was to make M3GAN as realistic as possible and the spookiness translates to the live performances of her uncanny dance to the Skatt Bros’ pulsing “Walk the night.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
Wind effect, etc., to create an atmosphere of spookiness at rise.
From The Ghost Breaker A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts by Dickey, Paul
