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UK
/ˈiəɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
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inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
an eerie midnight howl
an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods
How To Use eery In A Sentence
- A cheery Christmas and the New Year hold lots of happiness for you!
- I bounce a few more cheery sentences off her, but she has withdrawn into her shell.
- I hated it when Dad and the pot-bellied guys cunted up the place with cigarettes and beery boy belches. Please Cuntinue...
- He was delighted to hear a cheery yodel. Times, Sunday Times
- Such are your own and your friends’ impressions; and behold! there starts up a little man, differing diametrically from all these, roundly charging you with being too airy and cheery — too volatile and versatile — too flowery and coloury. Villette
- Around others at the wharves was the cheery hum of contented labor. War-time sketches : historical and otherwise,
- Oddly, they don't return my cheery waves. Times, Sunday Times
- He is a utility player who has quickly impressed Reds bosses with his cheery personality and trademark smile.
- Nor do they return the cheery wave of the locals who have graciously made way. Times, Sunday Times
- The times I was just having a beery laugh with my friends, times when we shared in each other's extrovert abandon, each other's dippy oblivion.