The word 'spook' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something or someone that is scary or strange. For example, "The sight of the abandoned house gave us all a spooky feeling."
The discovery of a rogue spook at GCHQ is certainly the most eye-catching revelation in the latest report by the interception of communications commissioner.
Tinker Tailor's Gary Oldman is up for best actor as reserved spook George Smiley in Tomas Alfredson's critically-lauded adaptation of the John le Carré cold war thriller, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Kathy Burke have supporting nods.
I think this book is good for all Spook fans, as well as Skulduggery Pleasant fans.
Mr Obama has held back from visible trade spats which might spook the market, instead pushing his team to find discreet ways to retaliate against such Chinese bad behaviour as the theft or forced transfer of Western technology, or market-distorting subsidies.
Either the weakness outside the Anglo-Saxon world proves temporary, or it will spook financial markets and darken the outlook everywhere.
The minister then sounds out Mr Belka about the central bank intervening, but worries Mr Rostowski would object as any such unorthodox move could spook markets.Mr Belka agrees but then adds, "My condition, excuse me, is the dismissal of the finance minister," whom he disparagingly dubs, "Count von Rostowski", and his replacement by a "technical and apolitical" minister.
All this is fairly cheap, he says.In this section Fighting for the next billion shoppers A spook speaks The eyes have it Murdoch does the splits How deep are your pockets?
A loan from the latter could spook investors in Spanish sovereign bonds.
Even though it was hastily withdrawn, the threat of another mass sell-off of state shares continues to spook the market.Four years after the first sell-off, a full two-thirds of the market's $460 billion capitalisation remains tied up in non-tradable or "legal person" shares held by state-controlled entities.
Presumably Obama hoped to spook markets, which in turn would put pressure on Republicans sooner rather than later.
The big question for Russia, Chechnya and the world is whether the symbiotic reigns of the Chechen warlord and the Russian spook are necessary codas to tumultuous times, or the incubators of yet more instability and pain.
