willies
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In theory, I agree with her, but the idea of sending anything that could be construed as offensive to another mother still gives me the willies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
Can’t joke it away Can’t even talk to each other except maybe in whispers, all hush-hush, and that just revs up the willies.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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