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as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a spooky horse shying at shadows
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
a spooky tale of strange hauntings and mysterious reincarnations
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Recent Examples of spooky
From the exciting nightlife to endless live music that fills the streets and spooky ghost tours, the Big Easy will engage Aries travelers for days.
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Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
That’s a lot of spooky adventures for Sam and Dean Winchester, two of fantasy television’s most beloved characters.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Fans of the spooky setting can come together at the table to tell their tales of the Fifth City together.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Josh Hutcherson is back as Mike, the security guard who must babysit the zany, spooky and dumpy Chuck E. Cheese-like pizza parlor.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
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Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
That’s a lot of spooky adventures for Sam and Dean Winchester, two of fantasy television’s most beloved characters.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Fans of the spooky setting can come together at the table to tell their tales of the Fifth City together.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Josh Hutcherson is back as Mike, the security guard who must babysit the zany, spooky and dumpy Chuck E. Cheese-like pizza parlor.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spooky
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And if Django’s Billy Crash tapped into Goggins’s ability to thrive with brutal spite, Mannix plays more to Goggins’s excitable energy and capacity for being clever (even when his character seems to be anything but).—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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For someone so obsessed with the granular details of carbohydrates and fueling, Roche runs with an easy, excitable freedom.—
Devin Kelly,
Outside Online,
3 Apr. 2025
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Disappearing from the table, my father returned with that eerie icon of the naked woman.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Related article An eerie spiral lit up the European skies.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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At times brutal and always volatile, the album functions as a sort of electro-shock therapy applied from the shoulders down, layering hard beats, ambient whorls, and nervous acid ticks to trigger a state of full-body rapture.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
18 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, sellers might get nervous if deal activity slows down.—
James Nelson,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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This is a haunting, unpredictable novel that’s hard to shake after reading.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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With a limited color palette and very spare design, the show subverts the commonplace elements of an office and invents a haunting visual language all its own that creeps you out while drawing you in.—
Charlotte Collins,
Architectural Digest,
20 Mar. 2025
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Paul Henreid’s Dead Ringer is a creepy exploration of how identical twins survive without each other.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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There’s a terrifically creepy scene in which the vampires, led by O’Connell’s fiery-eyed Remmick, go into an Irish step dance (at this point there are Black vampires who’ve been bitten and are part of the cult), and the message is: Give up your freedom and join us!—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Spooky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spooky. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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