How to Use icky in a Sentence

icky

adjective
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  • The trail was icky with mud.
  • Hopper spent the most time down in the land of icky vines.
    — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
  • There's just too much fraud and too much icky stuff in the space.
    — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Deer with warts may look icky, but the meat is still fine.
    — Tribune Media Services, al, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Done with the coughing and my clothes smelling all sticky icky.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Forty three percent said the bathrooms at the track were icky.
    — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 21 May 2016
  • By the end of the episode, he’s already tricked out his house in icky Saul Goodman-style.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 July 2022
  • With Christmas comes joy, but pure joy is a bit gray, a bit icky.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Even if the end justifies the means, there’s something icky about the whole thing.
    — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The used hydrogen and the icky components that it’s picked up along the way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • For some, selling may feel sleazy, icky or just plain gross.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This focus on icky men does bring up some of my gripes with the series as a whole, though.
    — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Birds that had watched the videos ate fewer of the icky prey packets than those that had not, the researchers found.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
  • All the icky stuff Trump does, the corruption and disdain for the rule of law, is Trump’s business.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Jan. 2018
  • In the grand scheme of things, a baseball player feeling icky for a day is no big deal.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Who's ready to say goodbye to red, cracked, icky winter skin?
    — Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Even when the flood waters subside, some of that icky stuff remains.
    — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Washington and its icky mascot will get beat up in the first half by the Cowboys.
    — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Only time will tell, but that icky ad certainly sticks in the brain.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The Waltons bought Rapha, which made roadies feel all icky and déclassé.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
  • And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Gosh, the optics here just don’t feel … something feels icky about this for some reason.
    — Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
  • No more bunching at the waist or icky sweaty sensations.
    — Bianca Kratky, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Your poncho will be a green, icky mess, but the only part of you that gets wet is (hopefully) your bare feet.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There was something about the back of the calf that felt particularly icky.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • These icky eyeballs that'll folks will never unsee Beware the evil eye—all nine of them!
    — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2020
  • What better way to go into spring cleaning than with anything old and icky cleared out and swapped for fresh and new?
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • This only adds to your toilet's icky factor and the consistent need to clean it throughout the week.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2023
  • But plenty of people balked, citing that icky smell and/or taste.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Happy fur-st birthday to Tampa's own icky, stinky queen!
    — Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 July 2024

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