icky
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I’ve been a parent to the blowout-er and the blowout-ee, and they’re equally icky experiences that make for a weird car ride home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
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
"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
The corpuscule’s icky cold fists rained down on her back as they both plummeted to the ground.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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
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
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
Winston's ickiest godchildren would face off in Alien vs.
From Time Magazine Archive
