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
Not only that, but the Fox News story that went with the icky illo said that ICE’s D.C. operation nabbed Jamaicans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, in addition to Guatemalans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
But it also feels a little icky to me.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
"The premise of the show is people finding love, but that isn't what viewers want, that's boring to watch and gets icky," says Spiers.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Shame and guilt and standards, the same icky stuff that got in the way of me and June being together.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
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
He added: “If most folks knew the ins and outs of embalming, I suspect they would find it much ickier in fact than composting.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2019
The presentations on this show only make it all feel ickier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
When the truth about Harriet’s disappearance does emerge, it’s lurid without being particularly surprising, and the last quarter of the movie goes by in a blur of sensationally icky flashbacks and ickier comeuppances.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2011
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
After he was hired to replace Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live, Murray made a name for himself with affectionate renderings of sleazeball characters like Nick, the world's ickiest lounge singer.
From Time Magazine Archive
