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Icky in a sentence

Icky meaning

  1. Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
  2. Excessively sentimental.
  3. Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.

Synonyms of Icky

crappy lousy rotten shitty stinking stinky bad gooey adhesive

Related words

Other words often associated with Icky or its synonyms:

smelly fetid awful noisome unsound foul funky foetid sticky gluey unfavorable dreadful

Using Icky

  • The main meaning on this page is: Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting. | Excessively sentimental. | Unwell or upset; in a bad state of mind or health.
  • Useful related words include: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty.
  • In the example corpus, icky often appears in combinations such as: the icky, icky is, icky about.

Context around Icky

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

sticky 1× handle 1× gross 1× ethic 1× slightly 1× feeling 1× completely 1× phantasmagorically 1× icy 1×

Often after:

movie 1× wet 1× insects 1× poors 1× implications 1× things 1× body 1× words 1× associations 1×

Sentence patterns with Icky

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

also handle icky wet weather 1× are gross icky they smell 1× causes because icky things are 1× feel like icky words 1× feel so icky is the 1× film with icky body horror 1× for those icky poors 1× may be icky but it 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a note about 1× and all proper 1× blundstone chelsea boots 1× but ever since 1× can t ride 1× cleaning the loo 1×

Common sentence endings:

frequently lol funny 1× get to see 1× guilt inducing too 1× have melted away 1× icky and wrong 1× icky movie blood 1×

Words around Icky

Just before it in the word index:

ickx 4 icks 3 icknield 3 ickes 6 icker 4 ick 21

Just after it in the word index:

icl 21 iclei 2 icles 3 iclever 2 iclick 2 iclicker 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

abbeys 42 abundances 42 aced 42 ackman 42 actinides 42 adeboye 42

Corpus analysis for Icky

  • In this selection, "icky" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, sticky, handle, gross, movie, wet and insects stand out and add context to how "icky" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include also handle icky wet weather and are gross icky they smell. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "icky" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with icky

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

And all proper sticky, icky movie blood. (7 words)

So the way it now feels to us is icky. (10 words)

Can’t ride the subway; that’s for those icky poors! (11 words)

Longer example sentences

These days, meanwhile, the idea of education as an investment in human capital has become so deeply embedded in the way Americans talk about economics and the value of college that most of the icky associations Schultz worried about have melted away. (42 words)

What makes up for that is the film's copious amounts of bodily fluids, with Solange's age and attendant infirmities (including but not limited to incontinence) providing the film with icky body horror, the most literal kind. (38 words)

Then, several weeks later, it was revealed that Vito and Reno were brothers, at which point the bit with Reno and Marie dating was dropped because, well, that would have some rather icky implications. (34 words)

Question examples

When you’re friends it’s different because it’s like, it’s this going to be icky? (18 words)

Exclamation examples

Can’t ride the subway; that’s for those icky poors! (11 words)

Example sentences (20)

And all proper sticky, icky movie blood.

Blundstone Chelsea boots because these chic leather beauties are super stylish year-round, but can also handle icky wet weather.

In Western society, in general, we’re kind of taught that things that are rotting are gross, icky, they smell.

So the way it now feels to us is icky.

That high humidity is, unfortunately, very favorable for all of the icky insects that we usually don’t see here.

What really makes this love triangle feel so icky is the things that we didn’t get to see.

Can’t ride the subway; that’s for those icky poors!

Like him, Sedgwick was one of six siblings, an East Coast native with a pronounced work ethic, icky about certain conventions of Hollywood life.

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Then, several weeks later, it was revealed that Vito and Reno were brothers, at which point the bit with Reno and Marie dating was dropped because, well, that would have some rather icky implications.

There is something slightly icky about your child being involved like this.

They sensationalize homosexuality and transgenderism (which are more symptoms than causes), because icky things are what bring donations.

What makes up for that is the film's copious amounts of bodily fluids, with Solange's age and attendant infirmities (including but not limited to incontinence) providing the film with icky body horror, the most literal kind.

A note about the term codependency: Codependent and codependency can feel like icky words.

But ever since I discovered the magical world of ice pops, I’ve learned I can eat five, even 10, in a row without feeling icky.

Cleaning the loo may be icky, but it needn’t be guilt-inducing, too.

Given all that fans know now, if Amy and the Doctor had gotten together, that would make River and the Doctor's relationship completely icky and wrong.

These days, meanwhile, the idea of education as an investment in human capital has become so deeply embedded in the way Americans talk about economics and the value of college that most of the icky associations Schultz worried about have melted away.

When you’re friends it’s different because it’s like, it’s this going to be icky?

His follow-up to is visually striking, phantasmagorically icky–and, surprisingly enough, it’s frequently LOL-funny.

Snowy Icy, Icky is how the eastern half of Kansas is predicted to be for the winter of 2019.

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Common combinations with icky

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "icky" in a sentence?
An example: "And all proper sticky, icky movie blood." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "icky" from authentic English texts.
What does "icky" mean?
Icky means: Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
What are synonyms of "icky"?
Common synonyms of "icky" include: crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky, bad, gooey. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "icky" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "icky", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.