Crossword clues for creepy
creepy
- Disturbing and sinister
- Causing goose bumps
- Like haunted houses
- Really weird
- Like Stephen King's Pennywise
- With 82D, trick-or-treater's garb
- Staring a bit too long, perhaps
- Like someone who randomly likes an old profile picture of yours
- Like some urban legends
- Like porcelain dolls you just know are staring right at you
- Like ghouls
- Like dirty old men
- Like Danny's visions in "The Shining"
- Gooseflesh inducing
- Disturbingly sinister
- Blood chilling
- Annoying and unpleasant
- A la King?
- Unsettling
- Goosebump-producing
- Like a ghost story
- Eerie, informally
- Like some horror pictures
- Causing goose pimples
- Causing goosebumps
- Halloween-ish
- Like a Poe tale
- Constituents of randy peer caught rolling like dirty old men
- Causing fear or unease
- Eerie, chilling
- Sinister rising member of upper house cutting Young Conservatives
- Not wholesome
- Frightening member of tribe? Pray, if losing heart
- Pony disembowelled by Indian? That’s disturbing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creepy \Creep"y\ (kr[=e]p"[y^]), a. Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.]
One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy.
--R.
Browning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, "characterized by creeping," from creep + -y (2). Meaning "having a creeping feeling in the flesh" is from 1831; that of producing such a feeling, the main modern sense, is from 1858. Creepy-crawly is from 1858.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin. 2 strangely repulsive.
WordNet
adj. annoying and unpleasant; "some creepy kids were bothering her"
causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling" [syn: creepy-crawly]
Wikipedia
Creepy was an American horror- comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but later went bimonthly. Each issue's stories were introduced by the host character, Uncle Creepy. Its sister publications were Eerie and Vampirella.
Creepy is a San Francisco, California-based indie rock/pop punk band that formed in 2002.
Creepy may refer to:
- Creepy, an American horror-comics magazine
- Creepy (band), an indie rock/pop punk band
- Creepy (film), a 2016 Japanese film
- nickname of Alvin Karpis (1907-1979), Canadian-born American gangster
- nickname of John Crawley (born 1971), English retired cricketer
- nickname of Frank Creepy Crespi (1918-1990), American Major League Baseball player
is a 2016 Japanese thriller film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and based on a mystery novel by . It had its premiere on February 13, 2016 at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival and it is scheduled for release in Japan by Shochiku on June 18, 2016.
Usage examples of "creepy".
She had had a lot of enhancements, most of which DeRicci found creepier than the Wygnin.
The interior of the museum was even creepier now that he was alone than it had been when Dutton had led him through it.
The occasional candle illuminated fitful patches of the room, enough for Jonah to realize that he was staring at a library, although much larger and creepier than any library he had ever seen before.
The creepiest part was that they all hit zero at the exact same instant.
The fairgrounds was the creepiest place in the world this time of year, when all the old buildings stood dark and empty and the wind howled around them.
One of the creepiest parts was the way the hard polished metal of their prosthetics buried itself in their living bodies.
She sat with her unprotected back to a vastness of desert, where venomous snakes slithered in the heat of the night, where tarantulas as hairy as the maniacal mullahs of the Taliban scurried in search of prey, and where the creepiest species native to this cruel realm of rock and sand and scraggly scrub were even more fearsome than serpents or spiders.
If he were the last man on this earth he would never mean more to her than the slimiest, creepiest thing to crawl from beneath a stone in the road.
LOUD GROAN, or possibly a snore, woke me from the deepest and probably creepiest sleep of my life.
It gave her the creepiest feeling, as if there was something lurking behind the door, listening to her, waiting for her to turn her back on it.
I have seen things that creep, crawl, wriggle and flop, but I must say that you are the creepiest, crawlingest, wriggliest and biggest flop I have met yet.
Ellen Jamesians, and he suppressed a momentary flame of angerthat another creepy Ellen Jamesian was introducing herself to him.
Actually, I thought death was just a bit creepy, and I though Spiro was downright subterranean.
Even the twins Carroll knew in high school were a little creepy, Betti and Bobbi Carter, who kept secrets, and answered for each other in class, the Benson boys - the dumb one always took the blame for what the smart one did, but when dull Blake got killed in a wreck, brilliant Bob had to be pried off his casket.
Plus she got the creepy feeling the man had upped the film-speed in these few-frame human flashes, to thwart just such study.