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spooky

/spoo-kee/US // ˈspu ki //UK // (ˈspuːkɪ) //

诡异的,诡异,怪异的,怪异

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    spook·i·er, spook·i·est.Informal.

    • : like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
    • : eerie; scary.
    • : nervous; skittish.

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Examples

  • It’s always interesting and well-directed, even when we’re fed horror cliches galore, from spooky dollhouses to things lurking in the basement.

  • Thanks to campfire tales and multimillion-dollar horror flicks, spooky notions can infiltrate our subconscious even without any real-life supernatural encounters.

  • In fact, “investors may be convinced that Halloween was purposely placed in October because the market’s actions can be so spooky,” CFRA’s Sam Stovall wrote in a recent note.

  • So much so that CFRA’s Stovall quips, “Investors may be convinced that Halloween was purposely placed in October because the market’s actions can be so spooky.”

  • For example, key to the quantum internet is entanglement — that “spooky action at a distance” in which particles are linked across time and space, and measuring the properties of one particle instantly reveals the other’s properties.

  • Warne looked—in the words of the Daily Mail—“like a spooky waxwork.”

  • Spooky Tooth had reformed quite a while before I received the call and were touring quite often.

  • When we all saw this, both my brothers turned to look at me in the car and pulled ‘spooky’ faces at me.

  • “As much as I love sunny meadows and bunnies, I also love spooky forests with owls,” she says.

  • Formerly a playground for Sunday school kids, it has a spooky, cloistered feel to it.

  • I don't believe there is anything spooky about that building.

  • "I hate to go through the grove, it's so spooky," she said, as they hurried along.

  • And again the ghostly hoot of the owl made the little patch of woods seem more spooky and lonesome.

  • A lonely owl answered with a dismal shriek from a distant tree, making the night seem still more spooky.

  • Those were gnomes—the real spooky, spinky kind that give you the shivers up and down your back when they're out gnoming.