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spooky

[spoo-kee] / ˈspu ki /


ADJECTIVE
easily scared
Synonyms


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She said there was a "male shouting from the front of the train" who was "playing spooky Halloween music on his phone".

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

A rough month in the technology sector was less spooky in other sections of the stock market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

And one claim is going viral this spooky season: that giving out full-sized candy bars to Halloween trick-or-treaters makes more financial sense than bagging the smaller “fun size” sweets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Tune in to this spooky episode of Decoder Ring for “a seasonally appropriate literary mystery—one full of doppelgängers, supervillains, plot twists, and vampires who just refuse to die.”

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Row after row of dark barred windows, all spooky quiet.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

There’s no sense that things are going to get spooky, because they’re pretty spooky from the beginning, and though they become spookier as the series goes along, they are almost never not spooky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

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

The whole thing seems like fertile ground for del Toro, who’s drawn to the stranger, spookier corners of the imagination.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

“Sorry, I just think it’s a bit spookier if it’s midnight!” said Ron.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The eerie glow provided a fitting finale to spookiest night of the year, delighting skywatchers and photographers alike.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Peck’s area actually made this year’s list of spookiest cities in America: Cape May was ranked sixth by home-security company Vivint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

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

"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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