"creeping feeling" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a sense of unease or discomfort that slowly spreads or becomes more intense over time. Example: As she walked through the abandoned house, a creeping feeling of dread washed over her, causing her to quicken her pace and constantly glance over her shoulder.
In case you're dying to feel crazy-eyed rage and the creeping feeling of déjà vu from being talked down to by especially ignorant dudes, here's an excerpt: "The thing is, if you're a young girl out drinking and partying with the boys, he's sure we all know that certain things might happen.
It's been a creeping feeling, growing over the years, but it sort of feels like pre-Google again.
Now we've got a much more creeping feeling of world destruction through climate change and so on.
But as Evan--hardly a rabble-rousing lefty--writes, a lot of people have a "creeping feeling" that the Cassandra from Princeton may just be right.
12.35pm It is lunch here at Trent Bridge and I cannot rid myself of the creeping feeling that I'm in the wrong place, writes David Hopps.
The listings in the red-and-gold menu are so minimalist (#501 Pork with Cashews, #502 Spicy Pork with Bok Choy, #506 Pork with Scallions) that it's hard to fight a creeping feeling of pointlessness.
But just as those creeping feelings of time running out peer out at me, so too are the even more powerful feelings of being blessed.
I began to get that creeping, unsteady feeling when you realise something is "game changing".
As he creeps off feeling alone, a cricket helps him realise that we are all different and some of us just dance to a different tune!
Whatever it is, write it down and when you start feeling those old feelings creeping back, read the list.
All of this and more can lead to a creeping progression from feeling fed up to experiencing clinical depression.
