How To Use Tacky In A Sentence

But everything of mine seems so tacky (trouser wise) but luckily, I found a ripper pair in the shop which are simply perfect.
I'm not sure if it's tacky to wear burnout tops.
The authentic beaded doll had large gold neck rings, so we added strips of silver foil paper around the top and bottom of our cups with tacky craft glue to simulate precious metal.
He was middle-aged, with a prominent potbelly and tacky gold jewelry.
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times

I was resisting the urge to become annoyed, but when I got to the part where Tacky does a splashy cannonball Matt shut the book with a snap and jumped off my lap.
Why did such a wealthy family need to fund the marriage of its grandson through a tacky magazine deal? The Sun
Just so you know, slim suits look fine, but tight suits lean toward the tacky side. starching your shirt
Yet one visitor from Northern Ireland got it right about the museum when she described it as ‘a sanctuary amidst the thousand cackling hens purchasing ever more tacky plastic tartan mugs’.
We were in Blackpool for a silly day trip, a tacky, idiotic day out to the seaside to frisk on the sands in mid-July.
Costume jewellery is another omnipresent tourist attraction, but be aware that the amber shops are often tacky and low quality, and amber isn't even local.
There were three beds, one window with a little houseplant perched on the windowsill, and a set of slightly tacky drapes.
It looked like it could have been held together with tacky glue and scotch tape.
Apply a thin layer of eyelash glue to the strip of the lashes and wait for it to set slightly and become tacky before use. The Sun
Its serial number was laser-etched on the back in the smallest, daintiest typeface, instead of being on a tacky-looking sticker. Times, Sunday Times
I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticy, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days.
If she is seriously ill, it would be kind of logical that he might someday remarry, but it is really tacky to have the subject come up during her lifetime, if it did. Evening Buzz: John Edwards’ Love Child?
And the traders are still there, their modern stock-in-trade tracksuits, tacky ornaments and whiskey sold for a 200 per cent mark-up.
It's time we rediscovered our national pride and contributed something halfway decent to this gloriously tacky enterprise. Times, Sunday Times
Much better was sweet, tacky chestnut flour tagliatelle with firm little shrimps and mushrooms.
I knew you knew it would work out this way but gloating like that is, well, just tacky.
The triplex is rivetingly tacky. Times, Sunday Times
It's a tacky, nasty little movie, frankly.
The bolt came away with a tacky wrenching sensation.
A revolution in typeface design has led to everything from more-legible newspapers and cell-phone displays to extra-tacky wedding invitations. What's in a Font?
The specimens cover a gamut from the best of their kind to the run-of-the-mill and tacky. 2009 August : Scrubbles.net
Like the rest of the hotel, it was at the same time elegant, tacky and endearing. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
All that shopping and eating and arguing and crying and all the glitter and tacky decorations. Times, Sunday Times
what the hell are those? that is the most tacky thing i have ever seen… make them cuiter! Review: Earmuffs for Protection from a Wailing Baby | Thingamababy
Although I loved it instantly at the time, it soon felt like one piece of tacky, rainbow-flagged campery too many, its initial appeal wearing off like stale poppers.
This is a world of cheap thrills and tacky pleasures, with little in the way of real happiness or contentment. Times, Sunday Times
It's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
Photographers then added other sensitizing chemicals and allowed the plate to dry to a tacky consistency before dipping it in a bath of silver nitrate and other ingredients.
Bringing the Ex was extraordinarily tacky, but narrowly/technically legal; her not warning you in the first place was especially grody.
And as every ‘victualer’ knows, you will certainly need a nifty name for your tacky tavern besides, ‘Stickey Wicket Pub’, ‘Waddling Dog’ or ‘Toad-in-the-Hole’ (which are already taken).
Let the adhesive thicken and become tacky according to the manufacturer's instruction (usually 1 hour) before laying the files.
Load up on cool ephemera and tacky souvenirs: NYPD snow domes, stick-on bullet holes, match books, carrier bags, free postcards, anything that says I heart NY.
Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.
The designs usually range from the tacky to the chintzy, though they do have some clever ideas from time to time.
Because it has a tacky surface, it attracts dust, which reduces its reflectivity somewhat.
It's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
Tacky barely begins to describe your actions in this mess.
Workers set about fixing the tacky decorations on lampposts as stunned onlookers enjoyed the summer sunshine. The Sun
And if the tacky drug metaphors sprinkled throughout this review annoyed you, avoid this record.
It seems to be seen as something that is tacky, twee and frankly just a bit common. Times, Sunday Times
They will get no quarrel from me about the utterly tacky impropriety of these guys acting as the messengers for such a call.
Rip off of Lady Gaga except Aguilera look so cheap and tacky. bill_strikes yeah, aguilera licked her finger as if it were a cock in her video and. .wait a minute that was lady gaga oh my god ... come to think of it that waasnt sleazy and tacky, nope Peter Berg Directs Christina Aguilera as Catwoman? | /Film
It's a tacky, nasty little movie, frankly.
Supplies for the project included a 10’ x 36’ strip of muslin for each child, diluted fabric paints in a variety of colors, fiberfill, puffy paints, assorted buttons, felt, leather scraps and tacky glue.
Apply tacky glue to the face and attach to the gourd.
From the whacky to the tacky, couples have also been spicing up ceremonies with photo booths-the kind you might see at a carnival or tourist attraction.
So this seems tacky: The logo of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, prominently includes its website address. NFL fever fuels TV ratings boom
If women are targets or "pie" or "gullet" -- this writer is a wad of wankery, tacky ejaculate, unwittingly revealing what makes him screech and wee wee. Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman"
The tacky stuff takes some shifting and it's not cheap to do so.
First, the issue is arms, not a dating website, second the video is plain tacky. 2009 March « One Size Fits One
They ask, quite reasonably, how can you tell the difference between kitsch and tacky?
He'd gotten blitzed at Tacky's Tavern and came home at bar time smelling like a brewery.
It adorns tacky gold cigarette lighters and sets of imitation pearl earrings found in inflight duty free catalogues.
It's been whitewashed and dressed up and sugarcoated for so long that now it's just a tacky piece of junk on a souvenir stand, painted in red, white, and blue.
He was crude, vulgar, tacky and brilliantly funny.
Diana's estate sues them because… well, it's kitsch and tacky and maudlin and icky, isn't it?
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
It's a bit tacky, especially in comparison to the sophistication and refinement of the historic section.
Lots of tacky teal, fluorescent orange and a mascot that looks like he was hatched from a Rod Serling nightmare. USATODAY.com - Marlins baseball is sink or swim
Avoid decorations that could be seen as tacky, like signs and tinsel. Times, Sunday Times
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. Scripting News for 2/12/2007 « Scripting News Annex
On the other, it could have looked a bit tacky. Times, Sunday Times
Call them trendsetters, or tacky '70s sham, but the truth is that they were really just trying to make a name for themselves in a rather unforgiving business.
It does not exude the tacky, plasticky feel of the compacts and is the sort of camera it would be a joy to roll some film through.
To destroy it, robotize it, kill its many personas, make it sterile and plastic, like the little boxes made of ticky-tacky that spell rootless culture, would be a criminal act. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
He called Sid about the hundreds of unsold, unrented, slapped-up, ticky-tacky apartments in Greater Belfast.
It has been immortalised in songs, films and tacky merchandise. Times, Sunday Times
‘This isn't some tacky shamus [private eye] getting caught out,’ said one media executive.
In one of their tiffs, the painter Marcello calls his vampy, gold-digging girlfriend Musetta a "chav" -- British slang for people with more money than brains and a taste for tacky bling. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
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 … Think Progress » Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera criticizes Bret Baier’s Obama interview.
Although the adverse weather had relented for the kick-off, earlier rain had left the Valerie Street pitch on the tacky side.
We used to build stacks mainly in the stackyard by the farm buildings but occasionally we built some in the field.
It was a tacky and sexist episode (one of Shatner's hammiest performances ever), but that last scene was just made for Hillary. In North Carolina Victory Speech, Obama Congratulates Hillary For Indiana Win
I stuck Bingham at an out-of-the-way table under this truly tacky netting tangled up with varnished swordfishes, and went back to Sandy. A Corpse is a Corpse
She jumped into a blow-by-blow description of how tacky and cheap and unfashionable Mrs. Glum's latest get-up was.
Remove each stick, add a dot of tacky glue to the hole, and replace the stick.
Some people say that using the clear plastic overlay is "tacky" but I think that is rather snobbish, and not economical. The Linen Closet
Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
All that shopping and eating and arguing and crying and all the glitter and tacky decorations. Times, Sunday Times
It adorns tacky gold cigarette lighters and sets of imitation pearl earrings found in inflight duty free catalogues.
But such attention to detail seemed to clash with a laminated menu, which made me think of tacky burger joints and sad little cafes.
Others find her propensity for tacky glamour and ostentatious lack of decent clothing a little too much to bear.
I spat back, gesturing to her tacky blonde highlights.
It's a tacky, nasty little movie, frankly.
Apply glue to the strip and wait five seconds to get tacky. The Sun
The image is flawless, save for occasional moiré patterns caused by the tacky '70s clothing patterns.
But the p ¼ resent, a toy car, a bit tacky. The Sun
I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
First, they have reinstated the original poster art, both on the cover and on the nicely embossed slipcover, which is a major improvement over the tacky work on the previous release. DigitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews
However, I have saved my tacky-souvenir money for a college scarf: the black and white of Trinity Hall on one side, the two-tone blue of Cambridge on the other, appropriate embroidered crests on each side.
Apply glue to the strip and wait five seconds to get tacky. The Sun
We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries. Times, Sunday Times
Then the whole tacky and demoralised affair will descend into brawling as each union fights for its own factional interests, including grabbing a greater share of the rapidly dwindling dues base.
A couple from the sticks dismisses the gift shop as'a bit tacky'. Times, Sunday Times
We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries. Times, Sunday Times
Attracting 600,000 visitors a year, the village is littered with ugly shop fronts and tacky signs.
We found one which looked a bit tacky but the beer was cheap so we stayed. The Sun
Additional two cents 'worth: The AFSCME withdrawal of their endorsement of Dr. Dean was just plain tacky, as my mother would say. February 2004
My family members give me gifts of tacky, gaudy trinkets that I have no use for.
Sure, Vegas may be tacky, tawdry, glitzy, pricey, shallow, obscene, and frequently offensive, but dammit, so is America.
They spread a lot of tacky gossip about his love life.
It seemed to be a bit tacky and full of busloads of elderly people.
Retro chic or tacky cheap? Times, Sunday Times
But at the end of the day, I laid my head on the tacky floral pattern of the motel pillow, and I missed Callum's silly babbling and baby cuddles.
It puts out a real sticky, tacky substance and is designed to restrict the movement of somebody.
We found one which looked a bit tacky but the beer was cheap so we stayed. The Sun
Appearances on various tacky reality shows have kept her from going under financially but now she has reached an all-time low. The Sun
The waxed surface is smooth, not tacky like some carnaubas.
Practice sessions have seen several players complain of their feet getting stuck on a tacky surface.
But actually it has been a gradual evolution: the tacky, low-rent qualities are still there, just employed to greater purpose.
We can speculate on why great things are often accomplished in dull or tacky surroundings.
Sure, it's the thought that counts however, if you re-gift some used, crappy odd n' end or pick something up from the 99 cent store on your way to a party, maybe it's best to just get a nice card instead Words can sometimes be better than a tacky knick-knack that screams "gas station gift rack. Carolyn Scott: How Not to Shop 'Til You (or Your Wallet) Drop
Skin felt a bit tacky after. The Sun
On this wet day, in the preaching-room of the mill, amid forms and desks, with the cranch of the stones from below, the wash of the wheel from outside, and the rush of the uncrushed corn from above, Cæsar sat rolling sugganes for the stackyard, with Kate working the twister, and going backward before him, and half his neighbours sheltering from the rain and looking on. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
The interior is bright and cheery, without being tacky. The Sun
The room was decorated to look like a cartoon Swiss village, but managed to be cheerfully tacky.
But it would be difficult without it looking a bit tacky. The Sun
A thing so cheap, so tacky, so sordid that I scarcely dare sully these pages with an account of it.
He says it's rather tacky, there are roadworks which haven't been fixed for days and the litter and muck just gets worse.
Out went the tacky, big-budget stage sets and tricksy technology and in came rock 'n' roll again.
Goofy cartoons of older men and women looking tacky and dumpy (thinking stereotypical Miami) in mu mu’s and oversized sunglasses Just Say Don’t—The Sequel (The Boomer Blog)
Then tacky wooden tables and chairs were added. Times, Sunday Times
Gums with branched chains such as the gums arabic, tragacanth, karaya (from Sterculia urens, of tropical Asia), guar, and locust bean, form tacky dispersions and in favourable conditions, strong gels.
It's tacky and seedy, but it's got these pretensions to properness - seaside landladies and all that stuff.
After a slightly tacky cowboy show it's time to see a bit more. Times, Sunday Times
Everything from tissues for our noses to our duvets in our tents has the tacky but tasteful print, my favourite being the synthetic leopard skin cover on the dunny.
I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days.
We explored a bit before lunch, but there's something disconcerting about seeing a medieval village crammed with tourists and tacky art galleries. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than being seen as tacky, it was fêted as being terribly avant-garde. Times, Sunday Times
Caribbean souvenirs don't have to mean tacky knick-knacks. Times, Sunday Times
Less expected was the response of my cynical video-watching companions, who thought the film would be too tacky for their tastes.
Come December every other house will be plastered in the tackiest of tacky flashing lights and we will laugh, regaling each other with sightings of aesthetic atrocities.
The chairs were tacky metal with pinky-brown covering on the seat and the back, but very comfortable.
They want to stress that it looks trashy if you wear the shortest skirts and look tacky.
Personally, I don't have a particular problem with people who insist on doing up their houses in all forms of cheap nasty tacky decorations.
However beautiful it was, I knew I'd never be able to wear anything like it short of a wedding dress or a tacky costume for a play, and I didn't even plan on getting married.
For the last 20/30 minutes I had noticed that my hands and arms were feeling not quite sticky but tacky.
It would be confoundingly tacky if a talking horse was able to wrangle all of Alan Harper's commitment issues with women while staving off countless hours of glue jokes and rekindling a strictly sexual relationship with a now septuagenarian Secretariat. Hulu.com: Retaining the Sheen: The Worst Possible Two and a Half Men Replacements
‘Big Alligator River’ is a disjointed, plodding, tacky foray into pop herpetology.
It has been immortalised in songs, films and tacky merchandise. Times, Sunday Times
It appears that a deep-seated abhorrence of that tacky Jezebel Jan Crouch is utterly cross-cultural, which is making lining up backing a snap from Geneva to Abu Dhabi. What Would Betty Do?
Although it will smooth out, it will remain tacky. What A difference 24 Hours Can Make!: 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread
Big brogues aren't exactly a high-fashion footwear item these days, but then neither are those tawdry tan shoes with tacky pink shoelaces!
The bolt came away with a tacky wrenching sensation.
This is a world of cheap thrills and tacky pleasures, with little in the way of real happiness or contentment. Times, Sunday Times
I'm sure most actors find most of the stuff in those goody bags dreadfully tacky anyway. Times, Sunday Times
CABELL: She calls Ericka's wedding tacky; Ericka calls it free. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2002
The set is wonderful, from the cheesy 70s-inspired table lamps, to the tacky neon lights shining through the blinds.
All couples neatly sorted into matching ticky-tacky boxes, with no allowance at all for falling in love outside those confines? TICKLED PINK
Who wants to go to a tacky West End celebrity hang-out, when celebrity is ten a penny and likely to comprise only noddies?
Curiously, the same logic also appears to be true of the tourist strip, which, in its own tacky way, is a classic example of how run-amok corporate money can leave a place wholly denatured.
If a fibre is mechanically extruded from a solution of (natural or artificial) silk protein just like pulling a thread from tacky glue, the fibre is still not as strong as real silk thread.
All has changed now and Senator Norris's hope that the area would be the Left Bank of Dublin has faded to reveal a tawdry temple to tacky consumerism.
It's definitely not hokey or unsuitably romantic or otherwise tacky or out of date.
Like all inaugural pageants, this one, with its parade and balls and tacky souvenirs, is satisfying in each of us an atavistic love of kingliness.
It's too easy to make woodgrain trim look overdone and tacky, but this company has got it nailed - figuratively speaking.
I sit in that eerie phosphorescent tubal glow and lounge becalmed, thinking about the microwave emissions being bombarded into outer space like a gazillion ambassadors of tacky schlock.
The memo offers students a "friendly reminder on some dress code and personal hygiene basics," such as teeth-brushing, haircutting and forgoing backpacks, tacky cufflinks (for men) and cute rain boots (for women). Columbia B-School Students Chastised For Being Unhygienic, Impolite
Unlike other products enhanced with antiperspirant, it feels grippy, not tacky.
Either it comes off as too sneaky (the "product placement" that hovers somewhere between paid mention and genuine endorsement) or too overt (the ubiquitous multi-million dollar campaign, the overly quirky spokesperson, or the tacky fast food tie-in), and the result is that you feel like the conventioneer in the hotel bar who isn't quite sure if the woman he's talking to is a prostitute. Sensory Depravation: Eyes Wide Open, Ears Wide Shut
It's almost like claret wine, except thicker like syrup, drying, coagulating, congealing into a tacky mess on the floor.
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. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
The salt crystals were apparently pushed (or ‘pounded’) with a paint brush into the tacky surface.
Egypt will end up even more tacky as a whole than the lightshow on the Giza pyramids. Food security: Bread and freedom | Editorial
Most of the country's middle class sneer at her haughty manner and tacky personal style. Times, Sunday Times
Often, those makeovers are really just incredibly tacky - I mean, not in a gaudy way, but they're just kind of unfulfilling and unsubstantial. Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House'
It's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
Others find her propensity for tacky glamour and ostentatious lack of decent clothing a little too much to bear.
It is bad enough that the marketing industry has hijacked Christmas by turning it into a pagan holiday for hocking off tacky merchandise and over eating fatty foods, but now, they're even trying quite literally to paganize Easter by bringing in pagan gods of antiquity. Euangelion
It should feel firm and slightly tacky. Times, Sunday Times
O'BRIEN: Well, you're the one who said tacky statue, not me, but they're kind of scantily clad. CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2005
They've got the glossy good looks and fleeting A-list appeal to grab a famous Liam, but want to be more than lucky pop princesses turned tacky tabloid sirens.
We found one which looked a bit tacky but the beer was cheap so we stayed. The Sun
The interior is bright and cheery, without being tacky. The Sun
The interior is bright and cheery, without being tacky. The Sun
Even though I'm not going for tacky, the 99-cent stores are coming in handy, because the red ball ornaments there are mondo cheapo.
I won't say that our apartment was a dump, but it was pretty sleazy, featuring the tacky look of most cement-block constructions, although it did come with a big TV.
i cure my writer's block and any other general creative stumpiness by taking a walk around my neighborhood. i live in this weird artsy neighborhood where people paint their houses pink and purple and orange and hang huge tacky ornaments on their trees. i love it, and it always puts me in the mood to run home and write something. "The Dancer"
After Diana's death, even the queen and Prince Philip allowed themselves to be photographed half-buried in the tacky flowers and mementoes piled up outside the gates of Buckingham Palace; and in another newspaper photograph of 1997, the queen meets the Spice Girls, whose cleavage is more prominent than the bouquet the queen is carrying. Portraying an Enigma
In her mind, the term fanny pack, "is just eww, so cheesy, so tacky, so horrible. TIME.com: Top Stories
Well it'll be something tacky - always is with these pop stars. Times, Sunday Times
It's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
Or the tacky plastic tea trays sporting a picture of the happy couple? The Sun
Why did such a wealthy family need to fund the marriage of its grandson through a tacky magazine deal? The Sun
We ape the worst of tabloid titillation in a relentless downward drive of tacky exploitation.
The aftermath of the war also means that the city isn't overrun by tourists and there are few places selling tacky souvenirs at inflated prices.
Everything from Samuels's tacky costumes to his choice of entertainment is selected with one thought in mind: making sure his guests feel comfortable and relaxed.
Supplies for the project included a 10’ x 36’ strip of muslin for each child, diluted fabric paints in a variety of colors, fiberfill, puffy paints, assorted buttons, felt, leather scraps and tacky glue.
Apply a thin layer of eyelash glue to the strip of the lashes and wait for it to set slightly and become tacky before use. The Sun
This could feel horribly tacky, the Japanese equivalent chain restaurant attached to your local shopping mall.
But I think, applied to motives and results -- and with the power differential firmly in mind -- that notion of ethics can go deeper than just dismissing the commodified dreamcatcher as "tacky" like a galleria art snob; and it's not an either/or situation in which the exploitation is an alternative, contradictory reason for condemning the commodified dreamcatcher. Archive 2006-09-01
Is it tacky to wear a skirt with boots and no nylons in the Fall?
I like a really old fashioned Christmas, where the decorations are larded with tinsel and as tacky as they can be.
I don't want it to be like one of those awful tacky shows. The Sun
Quiet, roomy cabin and adeptness overshadowed by cumbersome curb weight, soft suspenders, and a tacky dash.

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