Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a crawling manner.
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- adverb With a
crawling motion. - adverb figuratively In a
humble orsycophantic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This week, Survivor began with two flesh-crawlingly creepy night-vision shots of glowing-eyed rats.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Heroes vs Villains: Mission Implausible. 2010
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Those commercials, with Superbowl Guy grinning as he brags to us about taking pills to enlarge his junk, are genuinely flesh-crawlingly creepy.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Triage for Dummies. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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This week, Survivor began with two flesh-crawlingly creepy night-vision shots of glowing-eyed rats.
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It wasn't, and the ultimate proof of that was that cringe-inducing, skin-crawlingly, abjectly embarrassing performance of Reid trying to spin it as some kind of victory for Dem principle.
Happy Hour Roundup 2009
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Her books are half gothic horror, half shock-twist thriller, and a hundred percent skin-crawlingly creepy.
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Slimy puppet master, cruel politico, and skin-crawlingly awkward rapper.
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Here, she emails with Huffington Post about "skin-crawlingly earnest" recovery memoirs, writing while high, and why she's insulted by the term "chick lit."
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Interview With Anna David: Party Girl 2008
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One of Burns' signature themes has always been sexual uneasiness and disgust, and this short film structured much like a particularly clever Twilight Zone episode, complete with a skin-crawlingly creepy twist ending is one of his best encapsulations of the strangeness underlying sexuality.
Archive 2008-03-01 Ed Howard 2008
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One of Burns' signature themes has always been sexual uneasiness and disgust, and this short film structured much like a particularly clever Twilight Zone episode, complete with a skin-crawlingly creepy twist ending is one of his best encapsulations of the strangeness underlying sexuality.
Peur(s) du noir Ed Howard 2008
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With the exception of Permanent Midnight, all the addiction and recovery memoirs that I read came across as almost skin-crawlingly earnest once the writer got sober and I'd find myself savoring over their tragic stories of sucking on crack pipes or sucking on other things in order to get the money to put crack in their pipes and then becoming incredibly bored by their stories of sobriety.
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Interview With Anna David: Party Girl 2008
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