Sentence examples for creepy from inspiring English sources

Bergen's return to the big screen came in her most celebrated role as lawyer Gregory Peck's terrified and terrorised wife in the creepy Cape Fear (1962), stalked by menacing psychopathic ex-con Robert Mitchum.

On the evening of 15 March – after a relatively unmemorable performance – Kills piled in on the dress sense of contestant Joe Irvine, accusing him of copying her husband's look and calling him "creepy" and "disgusting" in the process.

When I went on Channel 4 News to talk about GTA, Jon Snow asked: "Aren't you worried, as a woman, that the whole thing isn't a bit creepy?" Well, yes, it is creepy, but worried isn't the right word.

However, the climb was nowhere near as creepy as the 2,350m top of the Gemmi – a dramatic high-altitude plateau with a sinister edge.

All of which makes it sound as if the spectator is turned into some sort of creepy voyeur, but Nordström makes us less an audience and more like detectives hunting for clues at the scenes of a crime.

It drove her to do the unthinkable: leave the village and seek comfort at a faceless bar, where she blagged drinks off creepy men, pretending she was a widow.

Some of the uses suggested to developers last week verged on creepy.

Already his constant, god-like presence has come to seem a little creepy.

Not only were all the trains given creepy new faces that made them look as if Gollum had been stretched across the rim of a bass drum, but the Fat Controller was ousted in a dramatic coup and replaced by what appeared to be a dust-obsessed French policeman played by wilderness-era Alec Baldwin.

Former madam Long Susan Hart (MyAnna Buring) is now a woman of considerable fortune at the helm of Obsidian Estates, a burgeoning property empire, assisted by the intensely creepy Mr Capshaw.

Meanwhile, Crassus attempts to seduce his own slave, Antoninus (Tony Curtis), with a creepy metaphor about whether he prefers eating oysters or eating snails.