What's the difference between creepy and scary?

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.

Scary


Definition:

  • (n.) Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
  • (a.) Subject to sudden alarm.
  • (a.) Causing fright; alarming.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) For a few fevered weeks it was "who is the least scary?"
  • (3) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (4) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
  • (5) Think the build-up to Brexit was polarising and scary?
  • (6) We usually only hear scary stories about invaders such as the Asian hornet , a lethal predator of honeybees.
  • (7) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
  • (8) Asked about such mis-steps, Frieden said: “Ebola is scary.
  • (9) The trail north from the scary little airstrip at Lukla is chocker with trekkers – at times it's more like a queue than a walk.
  • (10) Onward to dystopia then: Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The front page attacks on the 3 judges for basically just doing their job is scary.
  • (11) Honestly, it's not scary for me to die for freedom."
  • (12) I've never done it before; it's exciting and a little bit scary ... Adam Lloyd 05 November 2013 5:49pm Hi David, Big fan of your work!
  • (13) And to make your conscience even clearer, a percentage of every purchase goes back to local independent bookshops, helping them to survive in the scary era of all-online shopping.
  • (14) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
  • (15) There is a real risk of hunger growing in our city and across the nation and of people going without and that's a scary, scary thing.” Grimaldi says he doesn’t plan to introduce rationing yet.
  • (16) They told us that they think feminism is angry and scary and difficult and "not for them", and that feminists aren't feminine or sexy and that they hate men.
  • (17) But I was wrong to peg Let’s Be Cops down in the mire with the Scary Movie franchise.
  • (18) Cancer is scary, but it should not be forgotten that treatment options and outcomes have never been better and continue to improve.
  • (19) It is our job to help them through a distressing and scary time.
  • (20) As one scientist told me, and as a YouTube video of a Samsung S5 exploding after being hit with a hammer confirms: “Lithium-ion batteries are quite scary.” This is partly why they have improved by only a factor of two or three in 25 years.