ickier; ickiest
: offensive to the senses or sensibilities : distasteful
put off by her icky triteness—
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The trail was icky with mud.
the novel has an icky sentimentality that makes my skin crawl
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Just as Donald Trump was wrong to turn the White House into a Tesla showroom, an icky and transparent attempt to boost the fortunes of the world’s richest man, opponents of Trump and Musk are wrong to put Tesla in the crosshairs in retaliation for the duo’s fire-bombing of the federal bureaucracy.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
Trying to have it both ways just made the whole thing feel icky and cheap.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
Karolina Kurkova and her husband, Archie Drury, are dealing with some icky first world problems.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Just push through the icky feeling even one time, and see what happens.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
Trying to have it both ways just made the whole thing feel icky and cheap.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
Karolina Kurkova and her husband, Archie Drury, are dealing with some icky first world problems.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Just push through the icky feeling even one time, and see what happens.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for icky
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“Icky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icky. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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