willies
Example Sentences
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But upon closer interrogation, the whole thing gave me the willies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Granted, discovering that her superfan collected one of her toenails does give the otherwise unflappable spirit a serious case of the willies.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2021
Did they get the willies confronting their younger versions?
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019
Investors with wobbly emotions — that would be most of us — probably shouldn’t be steering our own financial futures based on whether we can withstand the willies we get every time the market rattles.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2016
If I hadn’t given myself the willies over the prairie’s nighttime noises, I might have noticed it sooner.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
