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spooky

[spoo-kee] / ˈspu ki /


ADJECTIVE
easily scared
Synonyms


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The network has around 200 members and "almost all" embrace the spooky season with a mix of "maize mazes, after-dark trails, scare attractions and pumpkin festivals".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Some tips for scaredy cats: If you don’t like spooky scary skeletons, creepy crawlies, or horror flicks, Halloween season can be a fright to endure.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Likely not, and whether you lean spooky or playful, the days and weeks leading up to Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

There was just something about the light and the water and the slightly spooky feeling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I don’t think I’d better do any driving. Papa lets me drive our old mules once in a while but I don’t know about driving these mares. They’re kinda spooky, you know.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

A chance encounter with a simpatico married pair offers the possibility of friendship—but soon gives way to something spookier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The vision turns spookier: “Her inky eyes bulged. Mā opened her mouth wide, as if to say something, and dirt spilled out.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

While Ortega wore a bright pink Valentino dress to last year's Met Gala, this year she went with a distinctly spookier and more gothic vibe.

From BBC ● May 2, 2023

If you want to get spookier, Google Nest speakers and displays can also play an hour-long playlist of Halloween-themed sounds and music.

From The Verge ● Sep. 28, 2021

Streetlamps glowed around the shore of the lake, making the water and trees look even spookier.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Rather, they are merely Halloween-inspired, containing candies that are shaped like bats and cats — undeniably two of the spookiest creatures.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

From ‘American Horror Story’s’ Murder House and ‘Poltergeist’s’ suburban spooker to a handful of ‘Halloween’ homes, here’s a quick guide to a dozen of the Southland’s spookiest homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Not any more, now that I put together this guide to what to do in and around New York City during the year’s spookiest month.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Consolidation has long been the publishing industry’s buzziest, and probably spookiest, existential threat.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2023

"Mother said this was the spookiest place in the whole house—except the cellar."

From Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler


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