icky

Example Sentences

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But it also feels a little icky to me.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

But over-the-top comments such as "Japanese people are next level" give her an "icky vibe", Kubota told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

“I was in a period of mourning and I didn’t want to give myself worldly pleasures because I thought it would make me feel icky or sad.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

A female police officer who volunteered to run in plain clothes to catch catcallers has said their behaviour "makes me feel really sort of icky".

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

Island was the hair-and-nails crowd, chaperones, and icky boys with all their macho strutting and unbuttoned shirts and hairy chests with gold chains and teensy gold crucifixes.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez