uncanny
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(s) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
- an eldritch screech
- the three weird sisters
- "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy
- an unearthly light
- "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley
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(s) surpassing the ordinary or normal
- Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel" - George Will
- his uncanny sense of direction