icky
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And the icky feelings about the intrusion may persist until you have transparent conversations about it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 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
“It feels so icky to do this, but it’s what you have to do to sound human.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Fair or not, it’s a bit icky that Hansen is here framed as the sole force behind the program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
My stomach felt icky, like I might throw up.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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
As instantly disposable as a snow cone, “Stuber” melts twice as fast, leaving an even ickier residue.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 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
The first Romero film I saw was “Creepshow,” the anthology film inspired by EC Comics, with a screenplay by Stephen King; it had one of the ickiest deaths I had ever sat through.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2017
Would you help her track her stolen phone through Manhattan’s ickiest tourist traps?
From Time ● Feb. 17, 2016
Winston's ickiest godchildren would face off in Alien vs.
From Time Magazine Archive
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