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Scary   /skˈɛri/   Listen
Scary

adjective
1.
Provoking fear terror.  Synonyms: chilling, scarey, shivery, shuddery.  "The most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge"






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"Scary" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship. He found himself in some kind of a storeroom. It would be a good place to hide all right. It was full of aluminum barrels all the same size. He found a space between two rows and sat down and got his breath back. It was very quiet around him. Scary quiet. But he set his ...
— Zero Hour • Alexander Blade

... something like that. Funny, he doesn't seem to mind, either. Colored people are usually scary about ghosts and spirits and the like.... I'm going to ask him." He raised his voice. "Sergeant, do you seem to notice anything peculiar ...
— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper

... again with a dog bigger'n any four decent dogs ought to be. And then s'posin' Johnson'd let go of that dog and set him on you, and he'd come at you like a sixteen-inch shell out of a howitzer, and you'd get scary about it and try to hold the dog with your eye, and couldn't. And s'posin' you'd suddenly conclude that maybe your kind of an eye wasn't calculated to hold that kind of a dog, and you'd conclude to run for a plum tree in order to have a chance to collect ...
— Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)



Words linked to "Scary" :   chilling, alarming, shivery, shuddery, scarey



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