spookish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for spookish
Adjective
  • Turns out, after a haunting 4-3 loss in the 2024 Memorial Cup championship to the Saginaw Spirit, Cowan had a lot left to learn and to gain in his game.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Guth landed on a more haunting and ambiguous image: Salome walking into a luminous mist, leaving mad reality behind.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Lochridge cites the monitoring system for the Titan’s novel carbon fiber hull — the same system that showed eerie cracking noises.
    Adam Carlson, People.com, 6 June 2025
  • Phobias, a silent clown duo with a horror twist, brought eerie theatrics to the stage — complete with balloon popping and unsettling surprises — and successfully freaked out the judges (especially Howie Mandel).
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Devon is suspicious of Simone’s borderline creepy relationship with her boss, Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore), and ambushes her with an intervention at the Kells’ island home.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 June 2025
  • Bug poems can’t completely sublimate their object of poetic attention—bugs are too creepy and alive.
    Hannah Brooks-Motl June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
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“Spookish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spookish. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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