variants
also ticky-tack
as in tacky
marked by an obvious lack of style or good taste
her house is full of ticky-tacky figurines
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Adjective
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Most polishes leave behind a tacky residue that builds up over time and attracts dust.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2025 -
Primetime fundraisers can be tacky, or at least not the best TV.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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And it was assumed that Edward Berger, whose terrifically trashy Conclave was a lock for Best Picture, would be No. 5.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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Eating dinner at midnight, watching trashy reality TV, and blaring music through our headphones during a run—this is the spice of life.—
The Editors,
Outside Online,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Domino’s is celebrating the cheesy week with half-off pizza through Sunday, Jan. 19.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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The cheesy dipping burritos join a handful of new offerings also set to hit menus Jan. 16, including: Steak garlic nacho fries Baja Dream Freezes $5, $7, $9 Luxe Cravings Boxes Build Your Own Luxe Cravings Box Find your nearest Taco Bell here.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Janacek’s Capriccio is a strange hybrid of lyricism and grotesque shocks of color.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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As is the case with horror icons such as Dracula, Freddy Krueger, and The Babadook, expect Bill Skarsgård's grotesque Count Orlok to be an annual Halloween costume favorite from now on.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Frisco hooded peacoat: $15.19 Dog coats don’t need to be unfashionable.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Iceland’s entry is radical in its unfashionable straightforwardness.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Particularly, with the juxtaposition of the tragedy of the fires makes the kind of vain posturing look more tasteless.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
10 Jan. 2025
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But more is at play in The Substance, which is also tasteless, silly, and — even at its grossest — easy to digest.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.—
Jonathan L. Zittrain,
The Atlantic,
17 Dec. 2024
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The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.—
Sam Lee,
The Athletic,
12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Helen, on the other hand, has blossomed from dowdy to dazzling, and is now a best-selling author bent on revenge and wooing back Ernest. Desperate, Madeline finds a potion endowing her with eternal youth — but with a few Faustian caveats.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2024
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She’s come a long way from Marianne’s dowdy school uniform.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Ticky-tacky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticky-tacky. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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