Thesaurus / creep
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Kate concludes that Jeanette may be a creep but that she would be an innocent one.
‘CRUEL SUMMER’ FINALE REVEALS THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS BIGGEST MYSTERY. WE THINK.BETHONIE BUTLERJUNE 16, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe nurse returns with, of all things, “Sabbath’s Theater,” Philip Roth’s sexually explicit work about an aging, suicidal creep.
IN ‘THE LIVING SEA OF WAKING DREAMS,’ LAST-DITCH MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS ARE THEIR OWN HORROR STORYJAKE CLINEMAY 31, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBetween the labor-intensive work and that superficial creep factor, making miniatures can be solitary or even ostracizing.
WHY 2020 WAS THE YEAR OF MINIATURESELEANOR CUMMINSJANUARY 1, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThey must slow the creep of mortality until the last possible moment, at which point they abruptly pivot from healers to consolers.
EMMA GLASS’S ‘REST AND BE THANKFUL’ POWERFULLY DESCRIBES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HEALTH-CARE WORKERPETE TOSIELLODECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWe can start by refusing to make or use any more digital shackles, and by refusing to let their creep extend one inch—or one use case—further.
COVID-19 HAS LED TO A WORRISOME UPTICK IN THE USE OF ELECTRONIC ANKLE MONITORSAMY NORDRUMOCTOBER 8, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThere is, after all, a creep factor associated with a smartphone lens that can take pictures of people, or anything else, from so far away.
REVIEW: THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA CAN'T DELIVER ON ALL THE HYPEPATRICK LUCAS AUSTINMARCH 4, 2020TIMEHe listened to tales of the Igorrotes, who live in huts like beehives and creep into them like insects.
ALILA, OUR LITTLE PHILIPPINE COUSINMARY HAZELTON WADEIt was some minutes before the children dared to creep out of the bushes again.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNERThere, in broad daylight, I saw Maloney deliberately creep closer to the fire and heap the wood on.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOODDon't let the idea creep into your head, that I am going to give you a dull and sleepy essay on music.
MIKE MARBLEUNCLE FRANKWORDS RELATED TO CREEP
- abase
- apple-polish
- be at beck and call
- be obsequious
- be servile
- blandish
- bow
- brown-nose
- buddy up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- cave in to
- cotton
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- curry favor
- debase
- defer
- fall all over
- fall on one's knees
- flatter
- grovel
- honey up
- invite
- jolly
- kneel
- kowtow
- lay it on
- lick boots
- make up to
- massage
- oil
- pander
- pay court
- play up to
- scrape
- slaver
- snow
- stoop
- stroke
- submit
- toady
- truckle
- woo
- yield
- abased
- apple-polished
- blandished
- bowed
- brownnosed
- buddy up
- buttered up
- cajoled
- catered to
- caved in to
- cottoned
- courted
- cowered
- crawled
- crept
- cringed
- crouched
- curried favor
- debased
- deferred
- fell all over
- fell on one's knees
- flattered
- grovelled
- honey up
- invited
- jollied
- knelt
- kowtowed
- lay it on
- lick boots
- made up to
- massaged
- oiled
- paid court
- pandered
- played up to
- scraped
- slavered
- snowed
- stooped
- stroked
- submitted
- toadied
- truckled
- was at beck and called
- was obsequious
- was servile
- wooed
- yielded
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- beseech
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- fawn
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.