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UK
/kɹˈiːpi/
]
[ US /ˈkɹipi/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹipi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use creepy In A Sentence
- Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
- Traitorfish said: I know that’s clichéd, but I really never liked Captain America - a superhero that nationalistic is nothing but creepy. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Death of Captain America
- The makeup for the Djinn character is creepy and evil, like some devilish creature from an R-rated version of Star Wars.
- Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
- It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
- Many bloggers and online commenters have called the animatronic baby "creepy" and "freaky" -- Technabob even ran a post about the clip with the headline The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
- Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy. Mistborn
- It is clever, and being cocooned in a moving car while the story unfolds and darkness falls, ensure it is a memorable, even creepy experience.
- An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times