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creepy-crawly

/kree-pee-kraw-lee/US // ˈkri piˈkrɔ li //UK // British informal //

爬行,爬行的,爬虫,爬行类

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural creep·y-crawl·ies.

    • : a creeping or crawling animal, especially an insect.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    creep·y-crawl·i·er, creep·y-crawl·i·est.

    • : creepy.

Examples

  • And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made.

  • Creepy thing to wrap up in festive paper and a bow and give to a newborn baby, yeah?

  • Private schools have a way of being a magnet for scandals for the creepy, inappropriate adults who run them.

  • The 1989 picture is remembered for the acclaimed (and sort-of-creepy, to be real for a moment) Disney family film that it is.

  • They seemed a little creepy to me, particular the song “Transmission.”

  • The atmosphere is perfect for our hoax and several of us who are "in the know" feel sort of creepy as we wait for the next flash.

  • And Mistress Cory Ann for once forgot to scold, because of a creepy feeling that seemed travelling up her spine.

  • Do you know, I felt a kind o' creepy feelin' down my back all the time.

  • Yet, here in the still ghostly midnight hour alone, the affair began to grow dashed creepy.

  • Now, thus brought by chance to its very base, he looked up at it with a cold, creepy sensation of shuddering awe.