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"icky":{
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"antonyms":[
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"agreeable",
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"congenial",
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"good",
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"grateful",
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"gratifying",
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"nice",
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"palatable",
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"pleasant",
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"pleasing",
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"pleasurable",
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"satisfying",
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"welcome"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": offensive to the senses or sensibilities : distasteful":[
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"put off by her icky triteness",
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"\u2014 Renata Adler"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"The trail was icky with mud.",
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"the novel has an icky sentimentality that makes my skin crawl",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Today\u2019s outdoor textiles have a softer hand and resist the growth of icky microorganisms. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
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"Don\u2019t let the blistering hot weather on icky summer days deter you from wearing them all season long. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
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"Our heroine Cam pulls off a truly icky DIY surgery in the back of a speeding vehicle being driven by desperate men. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 8 Apr. 2022",
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"And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky . \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
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"Since his untimely death in 1988, however, Basquiat has become iconic in the icky , modern way; more closely associated with high-profile bidding wars and branded merchandise than an actual creative vision. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 9 Apr. 2022",
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"That said, as written the characters almost dare viewers to care too deeply about them, and the show's attempts to be edgy occasionally feel simply icky , including a later encounter in which a gun is brandished as a kind of foreplay. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 9 Jan. 2022",
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"But others wince, because no matter how sophisticated the storytelling or agreeable the politics, an icky aftertaste remains. \u2014 Maurice Chammah, Longreads , 18 Mar. 2022",
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"This concerned father\u2019s comment that his young granddaughter had too many pairs of underwear (37!) was both icky \u2026 and revealing. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Mar. 2022"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1929, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"perhaps baby talk alteration of sticky":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8i-k\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bad",
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"bitter",
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"disagreeable",
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"displeasing",
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"distasteful",
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"harsh",
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"nasty",
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"rotten",
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"sour",
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"uncongenial",
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"unlovely",
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"unpalatable",
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"unpleasant",
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"unpleasing",
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"unsavory",
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"unwelcome",
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"wicked",
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"yucky",
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"yukky"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090017",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"noun"
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]
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}
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}
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