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Tacky   /tˈæki/   Listen
Tacky

adjective
1.
(of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch.
2.
Tastelessly showy.  Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy.  "A flashy ring" , "Garish colors" , "A gaudy costume" , "Loud sport shirts" , "A meretricious yet stylish book" , "Tawdry ornaments"





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"Tacky" Quotes from Famous Books



... together with the hatred of self, because she could not be glad for the simple object lesson of a man and woman happy in each other, made her miserable for hours. Late years she had not cared if she looked tacky. "What does it matter," she would ask, with a hateful glance into the glass, "when at best, I look like a water-nymph with hay-fever?"... A long and hard fight, but she had almost broken the habit of thinking what she might ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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