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Scary   Listen
adjective
Scary  adj.  
1.
Subject to sudden alarm. (Colloq. U. S.)
2.
Causing fright; alarming. (Colloq. U. S.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Scary" Quotes from Famous Books



... "She's a scary look to her, with her yard-arms spiking every other sea," said Captain Image, "and her decks like the side of a house. I shouldn't care to navigate a craft that preferred to lie down ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... into school. Then he asked forty-'leven questions about you, and jest as I was settin' you up high, who should come a canterin' up with their long-tailed gowns, and hats like men, but Ella Campbell, and a great white-eyed pucker that came home with her from school. Either Ella's horse was scary, or she did it a purpose, for the minit she got near, it began to rare and she would have fell off, if that man hadn't catched it by the bit, and held her on with t'other hand. I allus was the most ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes
... the country was all strange, and the trees spread over the mountain for miles, so that it was like trying to find the way under a blanket; but we kept on riding our horses over fallen logs and squeezing them between trees, all the time keeping a sharp watch over them, for they were fresh and scary. ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson


Words linked to "Scary" :   alarming, scarey, chilling, shuddery, shivery


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