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Creepy   /krˈipi/   Listen
Creepy

adjective
1.
Annoying and unpleasant.
2.
Causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin.  Synonym: creepy-crawly.  "I had a creepy-crawly feeling"



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"Creepy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sun rose, like a red ball, in the east, suddenly it felt a hole in the middle of its back. It had a creepy, tickling feeling, and then a feeling of tightness and oppression. Oh, it was torture without end! Being bewildered, it closed its eyes; but it still felt as though it were being squeezed and crushed. At last it suddenly noticed that it was free; and when it opened its eyes it was floating ...
— The Junior Classics Volume 8 - Animal and Nature Stories • Selected and arranged by William Patten

... is 'Fergus here' and 'Fergus there,' just as though he were alive and in the next room, and she was expecting him in every moment. Sometimes in the twilight it makes me quite creepy to hear her speaking in that sprightly voice, just as though she were making believe that he ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... asked, "I ain't never been on no hoss sence the time when I wuz a little shaver, and the Kun'l—he wasn't nothin' but a lieutenant then—wuz courtin' Miss Betty, and he pick me up and put me on a hoss he call Birdseye. Lord! It makes me feel creepy now, to tink 'bout ...
— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell

... mem, there's nae risk o' that; this is no ane o' yer creepy caves whaur otters an wullcats hae their habitations; it's a muckle open mou'd place, like them 'at prays intill 't—as toom an' clear sidit as a tongueless bell. But what for ye wad hae 's come here to oor cracks (conversation), I canna faddom. A body wad think ye had ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... likely. But I believe it will happen. I have a queer, creepy, crawly feeling—you can call it a presentiment, if you like—that 'Patty's Place' and I are going ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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