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Definition of Spookily
1. Adverb. In an unnatural eery manner. "It was eerily quiet in the chapel"
Definition of Spookily
1. Adverb. eerily, in a spooky manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spookily
1. spooky [adv] - See also: spooky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spookily
Literary usage of Spookily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"We're spookily good at it." "spookily?" "Trying to be more poetic." He grinned
and twisted the fuzzy split ends of his newly blue mohawk around his fingers. ..."
2. Sketches in Duneland by Earl Howell Reed (1918)
"The will-o'-the-wisps that spookily and fitfully hovered along the tops of the
rushes, and the erratic flights of the fire-flies, did not mar his serenity. ..."
3. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"New monocultures have thus sprung up: financial and office districts that bustle
with life during the day and are spookily deserted at night; tourist zones ..."
4. Paris & Ile de France by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"Here they can ogle all sorts of life-sized (and spookily alive-looking) animals
from giraffes and elephants to wolves and penguins, as well as giant ..."
5. A Hedonist's Guide to Marrakech by Paul Sullivan (2004)
"and can look spookily ecclesiastical after a couple of the right drinks.You'd be
forgiven for thinking the place was kitted out along with the hotel in the ..."
6. The Diary-letters of Sergt. Peyton Randolph Campbell by Peyton Randolph Campbell, Pratt & Lambert (1919)
"... hung over and under each other, criss-cross; and straight ropes and cords
making a regular cobweb through which the electric lights peeked spookily. ..."
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