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Meanings of eerie in English
Synonyms
Examples for "nasty"
Examples for "nasty"
1
It is a nasty job; better not be mixed up in it.
2
For the moment I suffered from a nasty crick in the conscience.
3
I don't for a minute believe in their nice cop-nasty cop routine.
4
I remember one day in the hunting-field he got a nasty fall.
5
The paper felt in his hand like bad news or something nasty.
1
The Closs home is far less luxurious but every bit as creepy.
2
Not actually at their work, you understand -that would be creepy.
3
I needed this creepy asshole's help, whether I liked it or not.
4
I get a creepy feeling that she means exactly what she says.
5
Your first thought: how creepy, why should they know where I am?
1
Passing the second large oil pump, I made yet another macabre discovery.
2
Kevin Yates' sporting future has suddenly become a macabre game of Cluedo.
3
I know nothing of those heroes of macabre fact masquerading as fiction.
4
Chance makes an unusual request before embarking on a macabre handiwork project.
5
Though she was still human, technically, she'd been given their macabre thirst.
1
A crawly feeling wormed its way into the base of her spine.
2
But the creepy crawly invertebrates have just as complex an immune system.
3
Try a bug cocktail or a caramel creepy crawly for Valentine's Day.
4
These curls-theyare all hot and crawly around my neck, holding me.
5
Though the air was hot, her skin suddenly grew crawly with goosebumps.
Usage of eerie in English
1
She heard eerie sounds coming, as she thought, from within the house.
2
The rush of the stream in the hollow had an eerie sound.
3
At that moment she had an eerie feeling that something wasn't right.
4
Walk among the eerie machines and mannequins of this subversive director's work.
5
The question startled me for the almost eerie precision of its accuracy.
6
Take it all in all, it was an eerie and terrible scene.
7
There are no sounds from outside my cabin, it's eerie, he said.
8
The eerie cries of unseen animals rose in harmony with distant thunder.
9
That was where Paul was conceived. Alia often made eerie, unsettling comments.
10
The memory of that eerie grief was still uncomfortable in his brain.
11
There, in the bright sunshine, a consciousness of the eerie possessed me.
12
In the hallway, moonlight cast an eerie glow across the family photographs.
13
Clearly it came through the still air-theeerie hoot of a nighthawk.
14
The sheep looked down at this eerie scene in wonder and confusion.
15
The eerie part was that the fiery current of energy was silent.
16
We love horror films but fear their eerie transition into non-Halloween fashion.
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Eerie across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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