What's the difference between jumpy and scary?

Jumpy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standoff has become a personal battle for the soul of the French right, a contest between Sarkozy’s jumpy and divisive personality and Juppé’s pipe-and-slippers calm.
  • (2) "Security forces have been on high alert for the last six days, jumpy, and were concerned that something might happen.
  • (3) "Jumpy" guards failed to recognise their leader and opened fire on a perceived security threat.
  • (4) However, Cameron has always been jumpy about highlighting these differences, acutely aware of the history of Downing Street battles, including Blair-Brown.
  • (5) Lewis was also aware that many in the unionist community were extremely jumpy about Corbyn’s Irish republican politics, and he thought his continued presence might reassure.
  • (6) The jumpy mood over MPs' behaviour was heightened when Fabricant was suddenly sacked for a series of injudicious tweets, including one saying it was about time Miller was sacked.
  • (7) Labour strategists were, in private, hilariously paranoid and jumpy, like dogs cowering at a firework display David Hare It was this kind of human weakness and fallibility that, up close, made the Labour party 20-odd years ago so sympathetic.
  • (8) Jay Pharoah and Shasheer Zamata’s Jay Z and Solange impressions were flawless, as was Keenan Thompson as Jay’s jumpy bodyguard and Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé.
  • (9) Twelve who retained 72 per cent of the load were normal or small at birth, amply fed on demand, and grew at accelerated rates, increasing from the 50th to the 88th mean percentile by ten weeks, when they were "fat, hungry, jumpy babies," exemplifying the Mg deficiency syndrome of growth.
  • (10) Arsenal were by turns sluggish, incisive and oddly jumpy as Olivier Giroud scored at both ends, one Sunderland’s equaliser, the other the second of his side’s three goals.
  • (11) Two-week-old pups of both strains showed good acquisition and retention in learning tests without shock, but the "jumpy" behavior disturbed performance to a certain degree in the SRH strain.
  • (12) Mauritanian sources said "jumpy" military guards at a checkpoint mistook Abdel Aziz, who was returning to the capital, Nouakchott, after a trip to the desert, for a security threat.
  • (13) Investors have become jumpy about any potential threat to the publisher's balance sheet should the civil cases result in damages payments.
  • (14) In the meantime, survivors of major catastrophes who experience acute symptoms of PTSD such as insomnia, nightmares, and jumpiness should be observed for nonresolution of symptoms over time, especially if there is a premorbid history of psychopathology or character problems.
  • (15) It is guarded by jumpy soldiers who permit no vehicle to stop near it, let alone any photographs.
  • (16) I get jumpy when someone honks their horn, and occasionally I have bad dreams and wake up at night, my wife asking me: “What’s up?”, and I tell her I’m being chased by Germans.
  • (17) The Tory scramble for a riposte shows how jumpy they are – and with good reason.
  • (18) When he affirmed that he did, I said that Tonight's the Night seemed like the inevitable culmination of the path Young blazed with Time Fades Away – his jumpy, nearly-out-of-control live album – and the intensely introspective On the Beach.
  • (19) Brussels attacker 'caught in Turkey last June', Turkish president says – live Read more On the first of three days of national mourning, the mood in the city was at once proud and sad, defiant and jumpy.
  • (20) The best new play category is between One Man, Two Guvnors, The Ladykillers, Collaborators and Jumpy , which was at the Royal Court and transfers to the West End this year.

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.