Historical clue formulations

• Downright unpleasant — 2026-08-18
• Downright mean — 2025-12-28
• Incredibly bad — 2025-11-15
• Filthy — 2025-09-08
• Repulsive — 2024-12-29
• Mean-spirited — 2024-08-11
• Foul — 2023-09-17
• "Yuck!" — 2023-01-22
• Extremely mean — 2022-07-03
• Mean — 2021-04-18
• Rank — 2020-12-18
• Eliciting a "Blech!" — 2020-08-08
• Disgustingly dirty — 2019-08-13
• Repugnant — 2019-03-29
• Vile — 2016-11-28
• Mean, mean, mean — 2016-11-07
• Villainous — 2015-11-29
• Vicious, as the weather — 2012-04-25
• Vicious — 2012-01-15
• Raunchy — 2011-12-06
• Mean-spirited — 2011-11-16
• Very unpleasant — 2011-08-28
• Mean-spirited — 2011-06-06
• Rank — 2011-02-03
• Gross — 2008-12-22
• Foul — 2008-07-19
• Not just mean — 2008-05-12
• Malicious — 2006-07-04
• Foul — 2005-10-11
• Foul — 2005-01-25
• Satanic — 2003-12-27
• Very unpleasant — 2003-05-05
• Spiteful — 2001-10-10
• Foul — 2001-09-12
• Vile — 2000-06-25
• Foul — 2000-03-08
• Spiteful — 1999-12-27
• Bad guy — 1999-04-24
• Ill-tempered — 1999-02-12
• Bad, as weather — 1998-09-01
• Unpleasant, as weather — 1998-07-01
• Yucky — 1997-05-11
• 1986 Janet Jackson hit — 1995-07-12
• Disagreeable — 1995-04-20
• Extremely unpleasant — 1995-04-10
• Spiteful — 1994-08-28