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Recent Examples of yucky Lots of yucky crackers are double, even triple the cost of the tastiest versions. Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025 May: Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico Trade mud season—that yucky, transitional time between winter and spring when snow, rain, and melt create wet (and muddy) conditions—for drier trails in New Mexico this spring. Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025 There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder, all while the alien molts through multiple hostile futures, waiting to be reborn. Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024 Sam spots a slug sliming its way along a bed of moist leaves and points it out to her father—even these yucky creatures can look like miniature miracles. Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for yucky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yucky
Adjective
  • There’s nothing wrong with the latter, but there is something distasteful about pursuing it under the guise of being a nonprofit organization.
    Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 7 May 2025
  • His style was distasteful and inappropriate, to be sure, but the choice to protect a teammate who is so routinely mocked by fans and opposing players alike (see below) was noticed and appreciated within the Timberwolves’ locker room.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of these vitamins have quality issues, like a fishy or unpleasant taste.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • Diana, for example, when anything unpleasant was said in her presence, would slowly blink her eyes in an incredible act of denial.
    Rosemary Counter, Time, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • And in addition to the swing itself, his overall approach at the plate has always been horrible.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • With guidance from Benny’s older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs.
    Peter White, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • That’s 663 days between pitching appearances – and 663 days since fans caught a glimpse of his wicked four-seam fastball and splitter.
    Julia Andersen, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
  • To its credit, Seattle responded strongly after the break and pulled one back when Cristian Roldan’s header took a wicked deflection and snuck into the Botafogo net.
    Jeff Rueter, New York Times, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • Troubled Factories: The medications came mostly from plants in India where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs and falsified records.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 17 June 2025
  • The next year, his fame reached a new echelon after the release of Pumping Iron, a docudrama that highlighted Schwarzenegger's strange charisma and filthy sense of humor.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has lauded Israel's strikes and previously warned of much worse to come unless Iran quickly accepts the sharp downgrading of its nuclear program the U.S. has demanded in talks that had been due to resume on June 15.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 16 June 2025
  • That backlash was so bad that Raven stepped in to defend her wife.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Hartley plays Lenny’s girlfriend, June, while Brook plays an obnoxious podcaster named Ratty.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • Of course, her obnoxious boyfriend, Harris (Josh Macqueen), whose family owns most of the real estate in town, isn’t exactly pleased with Zac’s presence.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps not helping so much: The set’s early reviews, which have been mostly fairly nasty in their dismissals of the set.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 25 June 2025
  • This time, Boyle and Garland have a sharper, nastier provocation in mind.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 June 2025

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“Yucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yucky. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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