icky
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Synonyms
bad, bitter, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, harsh, nasty, rotten, sour, uncongenial, unlovely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, unwelcome, wicked, yucky (also yukky)
Antonyms
agreeable, congenial, good, grateful, gratifying, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome
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This helps remove icky materials like lead, mercury, and cadmium from water and is a seriously smart investment. — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, "The 5 best Amazon deals you can get this Wednesday," 7 Aug. 2019 Talking about race and economics and property values is icky. — Washington Post, "Students at a Virginia school set out to fight segregation. Would they succeed?," 26 July 2019 Depending on the final details, those Ryzen cores should sing—especially compared to those icky old Jaguar ones. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, "Why Sony's PlayStation 5 specs matter to PC gamers: Ryzen, Radeon, SSDs, and ray tracing," 16 Apr. 2019 So maybe there's hope that women can overcome that icky, unspoken implication that standing tall and claiming ownership of our success is unseemly, inappropriate, or unladylike. — Andrea Bartz, Good Housekeeping, "Look, I'm a Self-Promoting Woman. And I’m Not Apologizing for It.," 14 Feb. 2019 Nothing disrupts the calm, meditative benefits of yoga like the thought of practicing your poses on an icky mat. — Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, "Here's Exactly How to Clean Your Yoga Mat," 6 Mar. 2019 This is icky moral territory to wade into at any time, but especially in an era when terrible men are newly exposed every day, and asking viewers to spend a 10-episode season trapped inside the brain of one feels like a tall order. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "You, now streaming on Netflix, tilts the rom-com into postmodern horror," 27 Dec. 2018 The needs of the next generation of young women superseded my own personal embarrassment of talking about my period or this icky disease. — Tess Kornfeld, Glamour, "We Asked Padma Lakshmi: What's Your Most Irrational Fear?," 6 Dec. 2018 And while the association alone may seem icky, many experts consider these young human fibroblast cells the ideal source of growth factors for skin rejuvenation. — Jolene Edgar, Allure, "The Truth About Growth Factors in Skin Care and Why They're Controversial," 2 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'icky.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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