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Definition of Spookiest
1. spooky [adj] - See also: spooky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spookiest
Literary usage of Spookiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"In fine, it may as well come out—he was a spiritualist, in the strictest, spookiest
sense. The owls are intensely carnivorous. The diminutive ones will feed ..."
2. The Tragedy of Pelée: A Narrative of Personal Experience and Observation in by George Kennan (1902)
"... and Mr. Varían admitted to me that those silent houses, filled with ash-plastered
corpses, were the " spookiest " places he had ever seen. ..."
3. The International Socialist Review by Algie Martin Simons (1907)
"They both try to banish spooks and end up by worshiping the spookiest of spooks.
Marx, Engels, Bruno Bauer, Feuerbach, Max Stirner (Caspar Schmidt), ..."
4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1907)
"... psychology as one of the "spooky sciences", they must regard that department
of psychology which deals with the imagination as the spookiest of all. ..."
5. The Moose Book: Facts and Stories from Northern Forests by Samuel Merrill (1920)
"... with a couple of guttural coughs or sobs, followed by a scalp-lifting,
blood-curdling wail, the ' spookiest' sound that any mortal could possibly utter. ..."
6. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1900)
"... &c., striking the iron sides, as the ship lurched from side to side, heard
down there in the semi-darkness, were among the spookiest sounds imaginable, ..."
7. We Knew Paul: Conversations With Friends and Students of Paul Rosenfels by Dean Hannotte (1990)
"... spookiest thing was knowing that Jung's book was written in the 1920's and
that he was quoting from a book that was written many years before that. ..."
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