tacky
IPA: tˈæki
noun
- Alternative form of tackey [(US, Southern US) A scrubby, neglected horse.]
adjective
- Of a substance, slightly sticky.
- (colloquial) Of low quality.
- (colloquial) In poor taste.
- Gaudy or flashy.
- Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance or dress.
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Examples of "tacky" in Sentences
- Although it will smooth out, it will remain tacky.
- Now my hands are all sticky, covered in tacky goop, like flypaper.
- First, the issue is arms, not a dating website, second the video is plain tacky.
- And tacky is putting it lightly about using your daughter's hospitalization for campaign literature.
- Additional two cents 'worth: The AFSCME withdrawal of their endorsement of Dr. Dean was just plain tacky, as my mother would say.
- Of course I have asked to be removed from the spam list, and how tacky is it to ask for a pledge less than a month after getting a gift of $100.
- I bunch of white trash in tacky chinese made flag shirts is hardly a revolt and don’t even start that stupid gun crap unless you want me to remove the firearm from you pudgie mitt and jam it up your ass …
- Nicolas Cage "these days seems all too content to waste his and the audience's time in tacky genre throwaways," while Julianne Moore is "yet another performer who seems intent on breaking the hearts of the faithful."
- Instead, it's through the mediation of the new Capitol building's role as a cultural force -- one iconically reproduced on currency, commemorated in tacky souvenirs, and glimpsed through grubby windows from the backseats of cars -- that the presence of his future makes itself felt.
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