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The water was dirty and smelled yucky.
I felt yucky after eating all that cake.
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The cordless wet/dry vacuum has a 40-minute runtime and a self-cleaning system to remove yucky stuff from the wet rollers.
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Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
The area around the toilet bowl can be a chief source of yucky smells as they can get trapped within the grout and even around the base of the toilet.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder, all while the alien molts through multiple hostile futures, waiting to be reborn.
—Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
Sam spots a slug sliming its way along a bed of moist leaves and points it out to her father—even these yucky creatures can look like miniature miracles.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
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Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
The area around the toilet bowl can be a chief source of yucky smells as they can get trapped within the grout and even around the base of the toilet.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
There’s yucky pleasure to be had in watching these young people flounder, all while the alien molts through multiple hostile futures, waiting to be reborn.
—Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
Sam spots a slug sliming its way along a bed of moist leaves and points it out to her father—even these yucky creatures can look like miniature miracles.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
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“Yucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yucky. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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