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eerily

[ eer-i-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a spooky or uncanny way that makes one uneasy; weirdly:

    The town empties out eerily at this time of day, giving it a ghostly appearance that visitors find disconcerting.



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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

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Despite being held at different sites, the narrative of victims is eerily similar.

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The fenced-off Palisades Village, which owner Rick Caruso had hired private firefighters to protect, looked eerily immaculate.

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I don’t think I ever truly imagined, though, what it might be like for this country to be at its own throat again, especially in the eerily strange way it is today.

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The battered heart of Khartoum lies eerily quiet now, after weeks of intense urban combat in the Sudanese capital.

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There’s something fitting about the term “vatnik” — derogatory Russian slang for pro-Kremlin loyalists — because whether by accident or design, it translates eerily well to a concept from another place and time: the "cotton rebel."

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Related Words

  • bizarrely
  • creepily
  • mysteriously
  • preternaturally
  • spookily
  • supernaturally
  • uncannily
  • weirdly

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