variants also yukky
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Recent Examples of yucky The cordless wet/dry vacuum has a 40-minute runtime and a self-cleaning system to remove yucky stuff from the wet rollers. Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 18 Apr. 2025 Amaro is sharing the top spots in your home that might be harboring some yucky smells—and how to tackle them for good. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for yucky
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yucky
Adjective
  • But Republicans were determined to use the revenue produced by a cap to pay for marginal rate cuts that Democrats found distasteful.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The artwork — a graphic close-up shot of a tiny American flag bikini on a woman’s pelvic area — was considered so distasteful by some that chain stores like Walmart and Kmart banned it at the time.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But the ever-reliable consumer is beginning to look shaky, courtesy of an unpleasant mix of a stagnating job market and sticky inflation.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The power is accompanied by a loud, unpleasant exhaust note.
    James Raia, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Miami could choose to move on from the star receiver due to the horrible season-ending injury.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the game’s best teams spent the regular season alternating between brilliant and horrible.
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Laura was also funny, so funny – and had a wicked sense of humor.
    Peter White, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Michelle was 16, entering her junior year at Lakewood High, a fiercely competitive swimmer with a wicked sense of humor.
    Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Unitree claims that the G1 is made to handle difficult, filthy, and repetitive jobs in a variety of settings, including at homes, factories, and hospitals.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a disillusioned ’70s suburban dad married to Alana Haim and vaguely fathering a pair of pathologically chatty sons as the Vietnam War and its attendant protests color the world around them.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could be as bad or worse than the 2000 bust are uninformed or ahistorical.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Thankfully, my passport wasn’t stolen, nor was it stranded somewhere in the middle of the rainforest (my worst fear at the time).
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Powell might have been appealing enough to make this goofy premise work if Russ and his alter ego weren’t two of the most obnoxious TV characters in recent memory—and if the show didn’t seem cobbled together from older, better sports comedies.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Apple's obnoxious $100-or-$200-per-tier upgrade pricing for storage and RAM is usually the worst part about any of its products, so any upgrade that eliminates that upcharge for anyone is worth calling out.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Big, nasty and physical, Kalani Sitake’s bunch controls the ball on offense and gets it back quickly on defense.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Chad Powers’ nasty protagonist should give it license to be more cutting, rather than just unimaginatively crude, in its humor.
    Judy Berman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Yucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yucky. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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