icky
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The result is that now we all have to deal with it as they work through their icky feelings in real time.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Smashing it would be an icky mess and pesticides are not the way to go, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But it also feels a little icky to me.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
“I was in a period of mourning and I didn’t want to give myself worldly pleasures because I thought it would make me feel icky or sad.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
And they remind me of clamshells and I hate the gooey icky inside of a clam.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
It’s a creepy setup that Muschietti milks for laughs that become queasier and ickier the longer and the more gleefully flamboyant the scene plays out.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
It frankly feels ickier now to be rah-rah about the Olympics than it used to be, and the telecasts of Olympic events rarely even nods at those qualms, much less explore them in detail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
One of the ickier elements of reality TV dating shows is their tendency to force participants to reveal their deepest traumas in their first 15 minutes of screen time.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2020
And she cleans the boss’s office, too, which makes for one of the film’s ickier moments as she dons plastic gloves and scrubs a few stains from his couch.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
As instantly disposable as a snow cone, “Stuber” melts twice as fast, leaving an even ickier residue.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2019
For me, it’s actually the ickiest part of this whole story.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
Still, Park remembers that when producer Syd Lim first read the “Oldboy” script, he was flabbergasted at the movie’s ickiest revelation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Would you help her track her stolen phone through Manhattan’s ickiest tourist traps?
From Time ● Feb. 17, 2016
It will be most enjoyable to rabid fans of the movie version, who can feast on the manner in which the Kaplans have set to song all the ickiest morsels of dialogue.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2011
True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
