Definition of "spookish" []

• Frightening or unnerving in the manner of something eerie or supernatural; spooky. (adjective)
• Easily startled, frightened, or unnerved. (adjective)

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• "Why, man, if I were superstitious, it would seem positively spookish."
• "England has become to the average German mind a real nightmare, a sort of a Frankenstein or any such spookish monster, and as she now, by the vicissitudes of the war, has indeed become the most dangerous of Germany's opponents it is not possible to educate people from the inside to a more rational view of her part in this war and in"
• ""Then it isn't -- Nothing spookish, uncle Phaeton?" ventured Waldo, in slightly unsteady tones."