What's the difference between creepy and uncomfortable?

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.

Uncomfortable


Definition:

  • (a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
  • (a.) Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
  • (2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (3) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
  • (4) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (5) Uncomfortable questions, which require an answer, whatever the result of the AV vote.
  • (6) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (7) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
  • (8) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
  • (9) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (10) The frustrations include separation from family, uncomfortable living conditions, language barriers, and inability to change medical practices that seem improper.
  • (11) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
  • (12) There have been other complications in the past week, too: the admission that the NoW was involved in the hacking of Tessa Jowell's voicemails brings the uncomfortable realisation that an effort was made to target a serving cabinet minister.
  • (13) For the moment, the fit between older men and caring roles can be uncomfortable and is unlikely to get better, and all that can mean for the long term is more crises and more pressure on professional services, unless gender is put more firmly on the caring agenda.
  • (14) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
  • (15) Physicians who are uncomfortable with this topic or who observe ongoing distress in their patients should refer these women to a mental health practitioner who is familiar with the issues common to women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.
  • (16) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
  • (17) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
  • (18) Fed up with rising energy bills and an uncomfortable home, Watson agreed to take part in a telephone survey about her energy use.
  • (19) It's an uncomfortable relationship when you're going in to squeeze something out of someone but you don't know what that is.
  • (20) The subsequent focus on James’s exit essentially gave his teammates a free pass from uncomfortable questions about why they were so poor without him.