How to Use tackiness in a Sentence
tackiness
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Bring on the feathers, the rhinestones, the prints, and the tackiness.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 May 2019
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Tamales will still be soft to the touch, and with a slight tackiness.
—Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
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Tamales will still be soft to the touch, with a slight tackiness.
—Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
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Just turning the page of a book or just to get a little tackiness on the fingers.
—Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
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When the sealing spray dries, I powder using a brush to take away the tackiness.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2022
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The prototypes used in Triple-A have a substance applied to them to create a bit of tackiness.
—Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 24 Sep. 2021
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There can be an inescapable sense of classism at play when some folks talk about tackiness.
—Marie Southard Ospina, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
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The almost-tackiness of the couch is mitigated by the molding on the doors behind her.
—Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 22 Dec. 2017
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My skin was left with a slight sheen and mild tackiness — not ideal for daily wear, but totally doable for a day at the beach.
—Jessica Prince Erlich, The Cut, 23 June 2017
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Del Rey shined In front of a neon sign that oozed the romanticized tackiness of Hollywood.
—Ilana Kaplan, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2017
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The tackiness added a helpful grip, lending itself to neater, longer-lasting braids.
—Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 10 Sep. 2017
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Like a number of zesty brands, the Double Bogey Club is twisting golf fashion away from its clichéd tackiness.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
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The slight tackiness of the Lite’s matte finish also makes for a better handheld grip than the smooth plastic finish of the original.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2019
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The splitter, in particular, is a pitch in which grip is key, and there are big differences between the tackiness of the Japanese baseball and the one used by MLB.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
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There are many things to admire about the production, from its madeleine-esque needle drops to its relish in the baggy tackiness of so much ’90s fashion.
—Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
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The main set was a yacht recently redecorated with a tackiness that, rare for the Roys, glares with the golden ugliness of unchecked wealth.
—Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
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Here, the softer Italian and French cheeses developed the slightest bit of undesirable tackiness where the cut surface was exposed to the air in the Grotto.
—Joe Ray, WIRED, 9 June 2017
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And tackiness can take many forms, from ostentatious displays of wealth to proud displays of cheapness.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
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That the auction was a surprise to those who knew her best was bad, and the tackiness of a storage-space online auction was rotten — Wurtzel would have laughed but also been horrified, friends thought.
—Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022
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Soon science develops a drink that produces natural tackiness on the palms of pitchers’ hands?
—Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
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And don’t hold your breath waiting for Trump to release his returns as presidents since Richard Nixon have done, no matter how many more stories about his tax tackiness appear.
—Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
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All in all the, Saucy Glosses felt moisturizing and comfortable on the lips without any tackiness or stickiness.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 29 July 2022
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What one umpire’s view of stickiness is another’s view of tackiness.
—Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2023
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Lightly flour the counter as needed if the dough is sticking; if there’s too much flour and the dough is merely sliding around rather than stretching, very lightly moisten your hands with water to create a little tackiness.
—Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2020
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The hotel isn’t much — the tackiness of the lobby furniture, speaking of memories, will emblazon itself on your retina — but Sophie and Calum take most of their setbacks and letdowns in stride.
—Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
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Our experts were surprised by how quickly the milky formula absorbed, leaving dewy, plumped skin without tackiness.
—Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 15 Nov. 2022
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The issue is, why can’t Lina indulge in equal opportunity tackiness?
—Tia Williams, Glamour, 24 Apr. 2017
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Like many other Reagan-era parvenus, the Boeskys conspicuously consumed the spoils of genteel wealth—but, never having been close to the real thing, they were betrayed by their immutable tackiness.
—Richard E. Farley, Town & Country, 9 Nov. 2016
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Under Trumpism, politics have an aesthetic, and that aesthetic is tacky, and the tackiness is disappointing.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
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Such skittishness could easily be interpreted as tacit acknowledgment of the inherent tackiness of vaping, which has long been associated with a certain kind of flat-brim-hat-wearing bro.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2018
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