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icky

adjective as in not pleasant

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Fair or not, it’s a bit icky that Hansen is here framed as the sole force behind the program.

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He stress-tests our icky, grubby pity for Matthew and, beyond that, the flimsiness of modern fame culture and its fake-it-till-you-make-it inspirational platitudes.

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A female police officer who volunteered to run in plain clothes to catch catcallers has said their behaviour "makes me feel really sort of icky".

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"Intimacy is made simple for you, it's made fun in the short term, but the more you play, the more you feel kind of icky."

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But waiting for a less icky opportunity means ceding the ground to people who want to make the structural problems much worse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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