How to Use icky in a Sentence

icky

adjective

• The trail was icky with mud.
• There's just too much fraud and too much icky stuff in the space.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
• Her pipes are backed up with icky brown water.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
• Is signing off with ‘love’ now icky?
  — Judith Martin, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Done with the coughing and my clothes smelling all sticky icky.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2023
• Trying to have it both ways just made the whole thing feel icky and cheap.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
• Forty three percent said the bathrooms at the track were icky.
  — Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 21 May 2016
• Just push through the icky feeling even one time, and see what happens.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 28 Feb. 2025
• Who's ready to say goodbye to red, cracked, icky winter skin?
  — Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2018
• With Christmas comes joy, but pure joy is a bit gray, a bit icky.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 1 Dec. 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
• And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• Only time will tell, but that icky ad certainly sticks in the brain.
  — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 20 Feb. 2020
• Have peach pastels ever been used so well onstage, or looked so icky?
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• Even when the flood waters subside, some of that icky stuff remains.
  — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• But our wedding, that like really just felt icky.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• Even if the end justifies the means, there’s something icky about the whole thing.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But plenty of people balked, citing that icky smell and/or taste.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2020
• Gosh, the optics here just don’t feel … something feels icky about this for some reason.
  — Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
• No one wants to look at the ceiling or wall and see icky brown or black dots covering the area.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
• And while the recent icky stuff did eat away at some snow surface, there’s still plenty there.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2026
• The used hydrogen and the icky components that it’s picked up along the way.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
• Although the actual ending was a bit on the icky side, but maybe that’s just me.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• There's just something about body washes and shower gels that always felt icky to me.
  — Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 11 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Plus, Devon’s dad and his dementia get played for laughs in a way that feels icky.
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 22 May 2025
• Over time, the screen becomes germy, icky to touch, and jumpy or unresponsive.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
• Over time, your bed pillows will collect, well, some icky stuff such as body oils, saliva, face cream, and dust mites.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Oct. 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