The phrase "a certain creepy" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that has a specific level of creepiness, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "There was a certain creepy atmosphere in the abandoned house that made us uneasy."
Alternatives: "a particular creepiness" or "an unsettling quality".
As you'll hear on their new single Little House Of Savages, or see for yourself at one of their upcoming live shows, this is a group of a memorable darkness, bearing songs of a certain creepy menace.
My favorite was the swan: the boy's great-aunt, who, the narrator tells us, was once a dancer and who now, in a cocktail dress and with a certain creepy glamour reminiscent of Norma Desmond, performs a this-is-how-I-did-it version of "The Dying Swan".
Sometimes death is the making of a poet's reputation, as in the case of Sylvia Plath, the details of whose suicide -- the towel under the door, the unlighted oven hissing gas, the sleeping children in the next room -- lent both poignance and a certain creepy glamour to her posthumous work.
What?"), but he grumpily lets Dave be his assistant and bag-carrier for an ongoing project: a war of words and much else with Columbia Records and with a certain creepy producer-manager – marvellously played by Michael Stuhlbarg – who misappropriates a precious reel of tape with Davis's new stuff.
The former Dr. William F. Roberts Hospital School in St. John, New Brunswick, like any slightly run-down former hospital from the mid 1960s, has a certain creepy, institutional vibe.
The former Dr. William F. Roberts Hospital School in Saint John, N.B., like any slightly run-down former hospital from the mid-1960s, has a certain creepy, institutional vibe.
This may be for Benji's best, however, considering word of certain creepy collectibles filling up a large, empty house.
For many of the same reasons rape is still, in certain (creepy) quarters, seen as arousing.
But we can probably all agree that at this point, compared with a certain hat-fad-initiating, creepy-CW-dating-show-producing Charlie Sheen successor, nearly any actor would make a good Steve Jobs.
The Lobster, which screened this morning, is a dystopian tale of a future where single people must find a mate in a creepy hotel within a certain time or face transformation into wild animals and, even those who didn't like it, can hardly call it a bid for the mainstream.
In an article on FastCo, she said, "At a certain point, one must justify their creepy acquisition of other people's pasts.
