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  • s  cold enough to cause shivers
    felt all shivery
    shivery weather
  • s  provoking fear terror

  • With reason: its recent, smartly shivery movies are the best.
  • Smoothly and deftly written as ever, it has not a chuckle in it, but many an eerie frisson, many an un-Gallic, shivery surmise.
  • He carried puzzles in his pocket to beguile them and wrote them letters to remind them that "we still remember each other, and feel a sort of shivery affection for each other.
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  • Kim Newman in The Guardian (blog)
    Once you get past the trickery, Shutter Island offers sumptuous, enthralling, shivery gothic film-making with a hardboiled heart and a sly line in asylum humour,writes Empire's Kim Newman. "If a pot is being boiled, at least it's an...

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