What's the difference between crawling and creepy?

Crawling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 30%, 60% and 100% plasma, crawling-like movements progressively increased, motility rose (at 30%) and then fell slightly (at 100%) while adhesiveness did not change.
  • (2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (3) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
  • (4) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
  • (5) Based on a single 20-s recovery VO2, the swimmers' VO2 max was correlated with performance in a 400-yd (365.8-m) front crawl swim.
  • (6) A decision to wean a child may be made if the child can crawl, walk, or has a good set of erupted milk teeth, even if the child has not reached the traditional weaning age of 20-24 months.
  • (7) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
  • (8) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
  • (9) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (10) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
  • (11) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
  • (12) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
  • (13) She stumbled to her door, but found she could not walk out; she had to crawl as the ground swayed beneath her.
  • (14) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
  • (15) The DOJ generally has to go crawling to Wall Street, tentatively striking deals that won't hurt financial reputations too badly and the bottom line hardly at all.
  • (16) I remember crawling out of it – because by that time I was too weak to walk, but I couldn’t bear to stay among the corpses any longer – and bumping into a neighbour who was as surprised to see me as I was her.
  • (17) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
  • (18) (Oh wow, note to self: trademark a version of American Football where players have to crawl or walk on their hands.)
  • (19) In the transition from quiescent state to crawling, the pattern recorded in nerves and connectives changes from short-duration bursts in many units to the 60-100 sec cycle of events recorded during tethered crawling in the semi-intact snail.
  • (20) These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practice, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.

Creepy


Definition:

  • (a.) Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
  • (2) (And if that sounds creepy, that’s because it sort of is.
  • (3) Whether Creepy Uncle Sam and his creepier backers will succeed in bringing down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) remains to be seen, but the prognosis is not good.
  • (4) Has anyone thought about how creepy this could get when actually put into practice?
  • (5) The monsters in Doctor Sleep are promisingly creepy: polyester-clad senior citizens who turn out to be child-torturing paranormals with fangs beneath their dentures.
  • (6) (After Kadyrov renamed the street last year in creepy homage to Russia's prime minister, Estemirova refused to even walk on it, her daughter Lana recalls.)
  • (7) Archer's creepy Pecksniffian pals If there's one thing worse than Jeffrey Archer, it is the erstwhile friends of Jeffrey Archer.
  • (8) It’s for all the men who don’t know which of their kind and magnanimous actions could be interpreted as sexist, creepy or inappropriate: Telling a junior female staff member that she has “piercing eyes” is a sexist act.
  • (9) Two old men are spying on a young woman bathing, but Gentileschi heightens the creepiness by having the men come right up and openly stare, while other artists tend to show them hiding at a distance.
  • (10) I read a couple of the threads, and they just seemed a little weird and creepy.
  • (11) [He was] creepy, yes, but it never crossed my mind there was any kind of paedophilia going on.
  • (12) But the first recent coverage to get attention came from a little-known YouTube user, DaPhoneyRapperz , who uploaded a video supposedly showing the Democratic nominee convulsing and having seizures – mainly the same few bits of video of Clinton laughing or making faces looped to a creepy soundtrack – on 21 July and has more than 2.2m views.
  • (13) It burned images into my mind: Danny's endless steadicam cycle down the hotel corridors, ending with the twins in the hallway; the woman in room 237; the creepy partygoers in animal masks; the horrifying reveal of the message "Redrum"; the wash of blood from the elevator; Jack Nicholson with the axe at the door calling "Here's Johnny!
  • (14) The home of the ants Atala’s encounter with creepy-crawlies in São Gabriel das Cachoeiras was not a coincidence.
  • (15) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
  • (16) But the main sequence was original, with horror-movie-like shots of a creepy party where the word “rape” has been scrawled on balloons.
  • (17) Sir Roger Jones said he always felt that Savile was "a pretty creepy sort of character" and had heard of rumours from BBC staff in London, but did not tell management because he did not have any evidence to back the gossip up.
  • (18) Moody acknowledges it is an area fraught with ethical and reputational risk: “One of the questions we get asked is: how do we ensure that we are not being creepy?” Context, he believes, is the key.
  • (19) The blog Creepy Paddington emerged, Photoshopping him into various horror movies from Paranormal Activity to The Shining.
  • (20) Well, yes, it is creepy, but worried isn't the right word.