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The water was dirty and smelled yucky.
I felt yucky after eating all that cake.
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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.
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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
The bad: Rotisserie chicken juices that leak into a reusable bag or onto a countertop could promote bacterial growth, along with getting yucky and smelling bad as time goes on.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 June 2024
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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
The bad: Rotisserie chicken juices that leak into a reusable bag or onto a countertop could promote bacterial growth, along with getting yucky and smelling bad as time goes on.
—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 June 2024
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“Yucky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yucky. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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