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  • adjective Dated form of scary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective provoking fear terror

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Examples

  • What I find really scarey is not the reduction of nuclear arms around the world but that lunatic people like Sister Sarah and Ms. Bachman actual have a forum where people will actually listen to them.

    Obama brushes off Palin on nuclear deal 2010

  • This it just me or does Hilary just look plain scarey in this picture?

    Now and then 2008

  • And what's more scarey is that the remedial principles being dismantled (or which Alito et al. are trying to dismantle) are the product of the Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th Century.

    Is That Legal?: High Noon At The Supreme Court On The Purpose Of Criminal Appeals? 2006

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

  • For the beginner speaker it is just plain scarey to be face to face in situations with non English speakers where they might say anything at all next, beyond what you might guess.

    Page 2 2003

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