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- adjective
superlative form ofuncanny : mostuncanny .
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Examples
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Something of this extimacy is voiced in one of the uncanniest passages in the text, wherein the Creature grounds his self-defense against charges of murder, a defense itself grounded in radical singularity, in a line of poetry written by Percy Shelley that speaks to the beyond-morality of any being who is unconnected to all others.
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Languages are some of the oldest, deepest, uncanniest, most thoughtful human inventions.
To speak another language isn't just cultured, it's a blow against stupidity Michael Hofmann 2010
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See an enduring friendship develop between the web-slinger and the uncanniest mutants on Earth as they contend with Kraven the Hunter, the Blob, the Marauders and the ultimate threat from Sinister.
Marvel Comics for December 2009 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The uncanniest aspect of our quasi-existence that I know of is that everything that seems to have one identity has also as high a seeming of everything else.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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St. Thomas's Eve is in certain regions one of the uncanniest nights in the year.
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career -- it follows you and follows you and drives you into a corner and makes you read it.
The Haunted Bookshop 1918
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This is a gey mysterious world, and women's the uncanniest things in't.
The Little Minister 1898
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His journey to America was one of the uncanniest things that had ever happened in his life.
Sister Teresa 1892
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The man I met was one of the uncanniest-looking mortals you could imagine.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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He talked high, and his splotchy face lighted itself up with all the shifting tints and signs of evil pleasure and promised triumph -- purple, yellow, red, green -- they were all there, with sometimes the dull and spongy blue of a drowned man, the uncanniest of them all.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Mark Twain 1872
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