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Recent Examples of yucky 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 The bad: Rotisserie chicken juices that leak into a reusable bag or onto a countertop could promote bacterial growth, along with getting yucky and smelling bad as time goes on. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for yucky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yucky
Adjective
  • Brands like Rivian, Hyundai, Ford, Chevrolet, and even Slate have a unique opportunity to gain market share as more and more American consumers find Tesla distasteful.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The circumstances made Green’s comments all the more distasteful.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Doing so consumes water, requires the use of often eco-unfriendly cleansers, and adds an unpleasant task to janitors' daily duties.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But that’s another unpleasant truth that is best left unspoken.
    The Editors, National Review, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Big, wonderful, funny, horrible, strange, sad, great life.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 1 May 2025
  • One of our group hunted it on a rainy afternoon — traditionally a horrible time to bag a bird — and killed a 3-year-old tom. —A.M. Don’t Become Overly Reliant on Your Cameras Cameras aren’t magic.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Havoc brings the heat, throwing Tom Hardy's stony Walker into a hotbed of gangsters, dirty cops, corrupt elites, and wicked assassins.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Dafoe rocks an aerodynamic pompadour and wicked attitude as the leader of a biker gang who kidnaps a rock singer (Diane Lane) and has a showdown with her ex (Michael Paré).
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The new house is now disgustingly filthy and filled with trash and the smell of cat urine.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The common areas of the building have been filthy, too: trash all around the grounds and dirty stairwells.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump intends to completely reimagine U.S. trade relations with our closest partners and fiercest rivals, for better or worse.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As an attempt to derive meaning from a meaningless phrase —which was, after all, the user's request—that's not half bad.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Which speaks to just how obnoxious the book truly is.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • An air of stillness surrounded her, as if her mere presence were enough to dispel obnoxious or malign activity.
    Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mingyang took the center of the Octagon from the beginning, landed hard leg kicks, and opened a nasty gash on Smith’s forehead with a step-in elbow.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • With a triple-digit heater and a nasty slider, he’s always been a tantalizing talent.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Yucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yucky. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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