Haunting
['hɔːntɪŋ] or ['hɔntɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) continually recurring to the mind; 'haunting memories'; 'the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty'- Claudia Cassidy .
(adj.) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; 'from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration'-Charles Lee .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Haunt
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Examples
- It was as if some haunting challenge prompted her, and she had not enough courage to take it up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Haunting every place. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A constant thought and terror is haunting her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To have her haunting the Abbey, and thanking him all day long for his great kindness in marrying Jane? Jane Austen. Emma.
- He knew from his daughter the various towns which Rigaud had been haunting, and the various hotels at which he had been living for some time back. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Are there evil influences haunting the air, and poisoning it for man? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He stood on the other side of the gulf impassable, haunting his parent with sad eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me, it would be hard to calculate. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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