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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky]
2: soft and sticky [syn: gooey, icky]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (ickier; -est) Etymology: perhaps baby talk alteration of sticky Date: 1929 offensive to the senses or sensibilities ; distasteful <put off by her icky triteness — Renata Adler> • ickiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also ikky) colloq. 1 sweet, sticky, sickly. 2 (as a general term of disapproval) nasty, repulsive. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe something as icky, you mean that it is too emotional or sentimental. (mainly AM INFORMAL) They've even got one of those icky photos of themselves on the bedside table. ADJ [disapproval] 2. If you describe a substance as icky, you mean that it is disgustingly sticky. (mainly AM INFORMAL) She could feel something icky on her fingers. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

bad, barfy, brackish, bum, cheesy, cloying, crappy, creepy, crummy, dirty, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, fulsome, gloppy, godawful, goshawful, grim, gunky, hairy, high, horrible, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, mucky, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, odious, offensive, ordurous, overripe, poisonous, puky, punk, putrid, rancid, rank, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, spoiled, sposhy, stinking, stinky, vile, vomity, weevily, wormy, yecchy, yucky