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  • noun An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

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  • noun The state of being creepy

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  • noun an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin

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Examples

  • But he's less sure if Google isn't risking turning off some users with what he calls the "creepiness" factor.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2012

  • And boy she was bad enough and since she got her own show the creepiness is sure showing more and more.

    Granholm worries of Tea Party's 'fringe element' 2010

  • But giving it a run for creepiness is the last story, about a recluse old man who hates Halloween and is attacked by a little demon-boy with a burlap head (think: The Orphanage).

    two more horror movies, reviewed intertribal 2010

  • That creepiness is balanced by the fully realized company of players - Publishers Weekly.

    The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray: Book summary 2010

  • But giving it a run for creepiness is the last story, about a recluse old man who hates Halloween and is attacked by a little demon-boy with a burlap head (think: The Orphanage).

    intertribal: two more horror movies, reviewed intertribal 2010

  • She was a proud, unabashed jerk with no compunction about showing off her retrograde politics while clumsily stomping about the city she acted as if she owned — just like her co-horts in creepiness Giuliani and Kerik.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • A good example might be Wint and Kid in "Diamonds Are Forever", whose creepiness is very much to do with their perversity.

    Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

  • Both characters are involved from the go get, I don't think that's a great idea, I like the idea of a loner, if you're in your car and look to pull over a Hitcher I guarantee your girlfriend\boyfriend would talk you out of it, plus most of the creepiness is gone with a couple in the car, that whole first section with just Jim was superbly dark and terrifying, what's more scary than being chased by a psycho when you're all alone?

    Filmstalker: Hitcher remake inside word 2006

  • But nothing in creepiness compared with the Valle de los Caídos (the Valley of the Fallen), Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s enormous monument to himself and his régime, which occupies a whole valley not too far distant from El Escorial — every stone of which was dug, cut and lifted through the 1940s and 1950s by slave laborers consisting mostly of defeated Republican prisoners of the civil war.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • But nothing in creepiness compared with the Valle de los Caídos (the Valley of the Fallen), Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s enormous monument to himself and his régime, which occupies a whole valley not too far distant from El Escorial — every stone of which was dug, cut and lifted through the 1940s and 1950s by slave laborers consisting mostly of defeated Republican prisoners of the civil war.

    El Escorial 2009

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