willies

“What about my dad? Does he give you the germ willies too?”

Mr. Musk has said that Instagram “makes people depressed” and that Facebook, also owned by Meta, “gives me the willies.”

Each happens to be Black, and these strangers are giving Neve the willies, even though she is a light-skinned Black woman herself.

My favorite horror movies this year laid off the flashy effects and instead gave me the unshakable willies the unshowy way: with creeping dread and uncertain stillness.

The veg sandwich, in which a salty and steroidal oyster mushroom subs for the bird, just gives me the willies.