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tacky
1[ tak-ee ]
adjective
- sticky to the touch; adhesive.
tacky
2[ tak-ee ]
adjective
- not tasteful or fashionable; dowdy.
- shabby in appearance; shoddy:
a tacky, jerry-built housing development.
- crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
- gaudy; flashy; showy.
tacky
1/ ˈæɪ /
adjective
- slightly sticky or adhesive
the varnish was still tacky
tacky
2/ ˈæɪ /
adjective
- shabby or shoddy
- ostentatious and vulgar
- (of a person) dowdy; seedy
Derived Forms
- ˈٲ쾱Ա, noun
- ˈٲ쾱, adverb
- ˈٲ쾱Ա, noun
Other Word Forms
- ٲi·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of tacky2
Word History and Origins
Origin of tacky1
Origin of tacky2
Example Sentences
You ought to write me even if I’m tacky and I don’t write.
To her, her longtime gig at the Razzle Dazzle isn’t just some tacky nudie show — it’s “the last descendant of Parisian Lido culture.”
Tom Cruise’s motorcycle tour from the boulevards of Paris to the Hollywood Hills in the ceremony’s tacky finale only increased concern.
The former president’s supporters parked their souped-up pickup trucks covered in tacky decals and flags outside Carnegie Hall, blasting Kid Rock music and holding styrofoam busts poorly made up to look like Griffin.
The Padres were tacky, but that was no excuse for Dodgers fans to be idiots.
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