creepy
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Creepy ring iconography crowded my consciousness: the unsettling surveillance of Amazon ring devices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
Creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, altogether ooky, they’re a peerlessly happy, hospitable family, ever welcoming to the straight-world figures who stumble into their eccentric manse.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024
Creepy as this interview is, it adds yet another conundrum to the puzzle that is Tom Cruise.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2023
Creepy and antic, gloomy and giddy, Michael Arden’s production capitalizes on every trick in Dickens’s story and then pulls a few new ones out of Scrooge’s top hat.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
“Good. That’s what I’m trying for. That turkey-bone thing you did was creepy, too. Creepy in a good way, good creepy. It’s been months and I’m still thinking about it.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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