willies
Example Sentences
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But upon closer interrogation, the whole thing gave me the willies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Granted, discovering that her superfan collected one of her toenails does give the otherwise unflappable spirit a serious case of the willies.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2021
And now we have Major League Baseball, where the piped-in synthetic applause from enthusiastic ghost crowds has given confounded viewers the willies — or at least struck some as “intellectually dishonest.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2020
You can easily call it quits if it rains or if someone gets a sudden, intractable case of the willies.
From New York Times • May 15, 2020
To clean his pool, and paint his bathroom, and my parents thought it was great, but the dude gave me the willies.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
