[ adj ] provoking fear terror <adj.all> a scary moviethe most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge
Scary \Sca"ry\, n. [Prov. E. scare scraggy.] Barren land having only a thin coat of grass. [Prov. Eng.]
Scary \Scar"y\, a. [From {Scare}.] 1. Subject to sudden alarm. [Colloq. U. S.] --Whittier.
2. Causing fright; alarming. [Colloq. U. S.]
What's more, he's "not scary." That's how the Republican presidential nominee sized up President Reagan during an impromptu lunch with two fifth graders he plucked at random from a crowd at a downtown rally in Pekin, Ill.
Having been over the ground a few times makes them merely scary."
It's scary," said extension agent Judee Wargo in Montana's Liberty County, where rainfall since October has measured 0.73 inch, compared with an average 3.17 inches for the period.
"It was getting scary," Howard Schwamenfeld recalls.
"The world is getting scary today with all of these criminals," she said.
It's kind of scary thinking about what it's going to be like when I get back to San Francisco, wondering if I'll be able to slip in and out everywhere without being recognized.
The book will be "about my life, my family, all the pet animals I've had," said the 13-year-old girl, a fan of scary films and gothic novels.
"It was scary _ you never really knew who you were up against," said the 23-year-old father of three. "Every now and then someone would wave and blow a kiss.
'If it's true what the government's saying in terms of present water levels, it's pretty scary,' says Mr Mark van Og-trop, hotel manager.
Very often when I'm writing scary stuff, I find I can't resist a little joke.
It's really scary," said Billy Marr, head of the Tuolumne County Water System, in the Sierra Nevada, which is considering rationing.
In Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, a 27-year-old sergeant stepped off a plane at a Saudi air base and summed up the concerns of many American soldiers: "Yes, it's scary.
Unconventional as a rhythm accompanist, Hopkins can replace a funny sawing-the-bass-in-half routine with scary stalking at the drop of a bow.
The flag pole was at a 45-degree angle." Lisa Hoger, a switchboard operator at the auto dealership, said the storm was "kind of scary.
It was very scary." "It seemed to me like about 30 seconds from the time we stopped to the time the stewardess threw the door open and yelled to evacuate," she said.
Eerie and scary British film.
A federal judge fined Orkin Exterminating Co. $500,000 for a fumigation that killed a couple, and he said safety practices at the nation's biggest pest-control service were "scary" in their laxity.
Sometimes it's a very scary thing.
"The first thing I thought of was, `No, I can't believe this is happening to me again,"' Laorenza said. "It was very scary." Officials said the train station would be out of service through the weekend while the wreckage was cleared away.
"It's always scary at this stage of the trial, but it looks better than I expected, because they haven't proved a case of direct involvement against her," he said.
Across the road from the park, yellow police tape still blocked off bike paths leading into the dense woods that neighborhood kids call "the trails." "It's definitely scary down here," Seiler said.
"The scary part is, people make decisions based on this stuff.
"It was very scary, most of us have never had a parking or traffic ticket before," Ms. Foore said. "Elementary teachers are normally very meek and very mild and very passive.
"It wasn't scary, it was secret.
"It was a scary market.
It's a little scary that you can paint that bullish a picture for the market," said Jack Baker, head of capital commitment at Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York.
For a scary comparison, that's only a percentage point below the level in late 1978, just before the nation embarked on its worst inflation of modern times.
"It's scary putting that tape on his mouth, even with a hole in his head," he said.
Strategists called the volatile selloff a scary reminder of weaknesses in the market that surfaced late Friday, when the Dow average fell abruptly after a long runup that did not seem based on any strong economic reason.
"That's a little scary," one large U.S. investor said.