scary
Use Scary in a sentence
i adjective, scar·i·er, scar·i·est.
1.
causing fright or alarm.
2.
easily frightened; timid.
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| —adj , scarier, scariest | |
| 1. | causing fear or alarm; frightening |
| 2. | easily roused to fear; timid |
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Scary
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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scary definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Everybody was wearing bells around their necks-bells to scare away the big scary bears out there.
Someone will come up with a way to make driving these cars an attractive choice instead of a scary or unreachable choice.
For my generation-ten years ago when this came out-it was really scary.
If you use mysterious terms and sound sincere, physics can be scary.
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