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Example sentences for: creeps

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In fact, that kind of error crops up--or creeps up--frequently, especially with two expressions using the same locution or image.
Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
They do it because they're selfish creeps.
Her writing is "crisply entertaining" (Cynthia Crossen, the Wall Street Journal ), her ideas are "revolutionary … a manifesto in praise and defense of the home" (Susannah Herbert, the Chicago Sun-Times ), and the information is indispensable: "Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food" (Katy Kelly, USA Today ). The only negative comment critics can come up with is that on occasion "a schoolmarmish, admonitory tone creeps in" (Corby Kummer, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to buy the book.)
Perhaps she best represent your politics, and those of many New Yorkers, but she certainly doesn't have the juice to defeat Giuliani, a politician who gives most people the creeps.