(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.
Uneasy
Definition:
(a.) Not easy; difficult.
(a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.
(a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.
(a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some journalists are uneasy at this notion of keeping an audit trail of thinking, authority and pre-publication decision-making?
(2) I appreciate things like that.” News about things like overreach in government surveillance make her uneasy but she said her tendency would be to shrug and say: “As long as I have no plans to threaten the national security, I don’t really have any reason to worry.” “In term of health privacy though, once we start thinking about health and our families, I think it’s very easy to realize that this is the most sensitive personal information about us,” she said.
(3) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(4) William’s trip will put a spotlight on his father’s uneasy relationship with China and raise questions about why Charles has yet to make an official visit to the country.
(5) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
(6) As MPs return from their summer holidays, Conservative rebellions are looming over rising rail fares, rising fuel duty and, as we report today, Tory councillors are growing increasingly uneasy over planned cuts in council tax relief which they say will hit low earners disproportionately hard in April.
(7) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
(8) With a few striking exceptions, such as William Dalrymple and Philip Hensher , contemporary writers have become wary of engaging with it in all its complicated, uneasy-making richness.
(9) At the same time, approximately one-third were aware of reporting issues that needed to be addressed, including staff unfamiliarity with the regulations, concerns of confidentiality, and uneasiness about reporting in general.
(10) But Cameron said he felt uneasy that in the film Assange appears to be more concerned about the fate of people who leaked documents to WikiLeaks – an apparent reference to Chelsea Manning – rather than people whose security may have been jeopardised by the leaks.
(11) Sorry, I mean it would be the department of trade.” She gives a shrill, uneasy laugh.
(12) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(13) We are still in the midst of the uneasy period of phoney war before the cuts actually bite, but we now know what's coming: the deepest and quickest reductions in public spending since the 1920s – which, according to an under-reported quote from David Cameron , will not be reversed, even when our economic circumstances improve (2 August, at an event in Birmingham: "Should we cut things now and go back later and try and restore them later?
(14) This was an evident need since up to now each school applied a different criterion to qualify its graduates; the resulting disparity in the scores with which graduates applied for the National calls in postgraduate training programs, general practice positions and the like, elicited uneasiness both among graduates and academic staff.
(15) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
(16) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(17) Key party members stressed they had no master plan in response to the vote, but said it could not be ignored and argued many Conservatives were uneasy about the reforms.
(18) Browne said he was "instinctively uneasy" about restricting religious freedoms, but he added there may be a case to act to protect girls who were too young to decide for themselves whether they wished to wear the veil or not.
(19) If you genuinely do distrust industrial production, if you do believe that a mass, mechanised civilisation is incompatible in some way with democracy, post-fossil fuel economy or a humane society in general – and such opinions are not rare – then you necessarily have to own up to the critique, something that the guiltily uneasy combination of hay bales and laptops found at many protest camps can make especially uncomfortable.
(20) In certain telling ways the response of the nation’s leaders to the recent market crash is emblematic of a much larger dilemma – one that sits right at the heart of China’s uneasy fusion of communism and free-market economics, a system with little precedent and no operating manual.