{
  "icky":{
    "antonyms":[
      "agreeable",
      "congenial",
      "good",
      "grateful",
      "gratifying",
      "nice",
      "palatable",
      "pleasant",
      "pleasing",
      "pleasurable",
      "satisfying",
      "welcome"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": offensive to the senses or sensibilities : distasteful":[
        "put off by her icky triteness",
        "\u2014 Renata Adler"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The trail was icky with mud.",
      "the novel has an icky sentimentality that makes my skin crawl",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Today\u2019s outdoor textiles have a softer hand and resist the growth of icky microorganisms. \u2014 New York Times , 2 June 2022",
      "Don\u2019t let the blistering hot weather on icky summer days deter you from wearing them all season long. \u2014 Vogue , 24 May 2022",
      "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",
      "And not even a moral victory type of loss, but something icky . \u2014 Damon Young, Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "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",
      "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",
      "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",
      "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"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1929, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps baby talk alteration of sticky":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8i-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bad",
      "bitter",
      "disagreeable",
      "displeasing",
      "distasteful",
      "harsh",
      "nasty",
      "rotten",
      "sour",
      "uncongenial",
      "unlovely",
      "unpalatable",
      "unpleasant",
      "unpleasing",
      "unsavory",
      "unwelcome",
      "wicked",
      "yucky",
      "yukky"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090017",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}