How to Use icky in a Sentence

icky

adjective

• The trail was icky with mud.
• Hopper spent the most time down in the land of icky vines.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 27 Oct. 2017
• There's just too much fraud and too much icky stuff in the space.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Deer with warts may look icky, but the meat is still fine.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 8 Jan. 2020
• Done with the coughing and my clothes smelling all sticky icky.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2023
• Forty three percent said the bathrooms at the track were icky.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 21 May 2016
• By the end of the episode, he’s already tricked out his house in icky Saul Goodman-style.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 19 July 2022
• With Christmas comes joy, but pure joy is a bit gray, a bit icky.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2021
• Even if the end justifies the means, there’s something icky about the whole thing.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• The used hydrogen and the icky components that it’s picked up along the way.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
• For some, selling may feel sleazy, icky or just plain gross.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• This focus on icky men does bring up some of my gripes with the series as a whole, though.
  — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
• Birds that had watched the videos ate fewer of the icky prey packets than those that had not, the researchers found.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
• All the icky stuff Trump does, the corruption and disdain for the rule of law, is Trump’s business.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Jan. 2018
• In the grand scheme of things, a baseball player feeling icky for a day is no big deal.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2021
• Who's ready to say goodbye to red, cracked, icky winter skin?
  — Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2018
• Even when the flood waters subside, some of that icky stuff remains.
  — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Washington and its icky mascot will get beat up in the first half by the Cowboys.
  — Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Only time will tell, but that icky ad certainly sticks in the brain.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 20 Feb. 2020
• The Waltons bought Rapha, which made roadies feel all icky and déclassé.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 2 June 2022
• And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Gosh, the optics here just don’t feel … something feels icky about this for some reason.
  — Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
• No more bunching at the waist or icky sweaty sensations.
  — Bianca Kratky, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
• Your poncho will be a green, icky mess, but the only part of you that gets wet is (hopefully) your bare feet.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• There was something about the back of the calf that felt particularly icky.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• These icky eyeballs that'll folks will never unsee Beware the evil eye—all nine of them!
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2020
• What better way to go into spring cleaning than with anything old and icky cleared out and swapped for fresh and new?
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2018
• This only adds to your toilet's icky factor and the consistent need to clean it throughout the week.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2023
• These body fluids as well as their body surfaces can carry all sorts of icky disease-causing microbes.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
• Point is: Many rich Americans who might have once had an icky feeling about the prospect of surging inflation in the past suddenly don’t seem too worried about it.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024