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- noun The property of being
spooky .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bertino knows what he wants, but after a good 45 minutes of playing every tastefully suspenseful card in the deck, the movie begins to drag and the spookiness is replaced by ridiculousness.
“The Strangers” is no stranger to horror convention » Scene-Stealers 2008
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Therefore, you could say that the irreducible quantum spookiness is to be found in the double-slit, non-commuting quantities, and superposition.
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I felt a little bit ridiculous to have reacted as I did, but it was too suspenseful with that jumpy/startling kind of spookiness for me to handle.
scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2007
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Michael Jackson had Vincent Price do spoken-word spookiness on 1982’s “Thriller.”
Top 10 User-Submitted Halloween Rock Tunes » Scene-Stealers 2008
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What remains true from previous episodes is the overwhelming feeling of "spookiness" and the This-Is-Odd factor that players experience when they first encounter an in-game site or clue.
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What remains true from previous episodes is the overwhelming feeling of "spookiness" and the This-Is-Odd factor that players experience when they first encounter an in-game site or clue.
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What remains true from previous episodes is the overwhelming feeling of "spookiness" and the This-Is-Odd factor that players experience when they first encounter an in-game site or clue.
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Starting off with chugging, neo-baroque noodlings, its three compact movements encompass warmly melodic writing, Bartokian spookiness, jazz-inflected syncopation, washes of impressionistic color and bursts of spiky modernism.
Kennedy Center Chamber Players' take on Previn, Haydn, Schumman Post 2010
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The three witches are played by men in full, barbaric Braveheart style -- their preening and would-be spookiness is just the first of a number of false notes, not helped by several members of the cast stumbling a bit on their lines.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Brand New Shakespeare, The Scottish Play and Post-Apocalyptic Dancing! Michael Giltz 2011
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The three witches are played by men in full, barbaric Braveheart style -- their preening and would-be spookiness is just the first of a number of false notes, not helped by several members of the cast stumbling a bit on their lines.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Brand New Shakespeare, The Scottish Play and Post-Apocalyptic Dancing! Michael Giltz 2011
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