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scary

adjective as in frightening, terrifying

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One, after making a new group of friends who never accepted me, advised me to try not to be “scary” and “intimidating” when I observed that I didn’t find these people to be welcoming.

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The killer was staying at the nearby Park Inn Hotel, where Ms Whyte worked, and staff reported Majek, originally from Sudan, had earlier been staring at her and others, in a "scary" and "spooky" manner.

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"I worry that this might be passed on to them. It's very scary for the future, not knowing what the next relapse would bring."

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And it doesn’t take a discerning eye to realize that the horror movies distributed and produced by these companies share similar themes and narratives to their awards-bait dramas, told in ways that skew scarier.

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It’s scary, having a bot bop around the web for me, and there are real risks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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