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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The texture here is like a traditional cream; not overly rich, nor notably silky or tacky.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025 -
For the handle, squeeze a drop of tacky glue onto each end of a 1-inch length of pipe cleaner and adhere it to one side of the box.—
Kimberly Stoney,
Parents,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Not because Johansen — who died Feb. 28 at the age of 75 — was one of those folksingers associated with the neighborhood, but because his first major band, the New York Dolls, made its name and proudly trashy reputation at the Mercer Arts Center, a multi-tiered performance space in the Village.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
2 Mar. 2025
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Netflix serves all possible audiences, from high-minded documentary viewers to families that love sitcoms to the biggest fans of the trashiest reality TV.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to cheesy garlic bread (seeded Bronx bastone, mozzarella, Pecorino Romano and Parmesan Reggiano, Sicilian oregano, served with an 8-hour marinara) and meatballs with 8-hour marinara, the stand is offering two new desserts!—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Our recipe tasters could not stop raving about the cheesy flavor of this onion recipe.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This vignette, marked by shimmering red decor and a grotesque clientele, feels the most inspired by Waters and his early work with Divine.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display.—
Sean Durns,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The movie takes its title for the unfashionable floater of a nearly unhittable pitch, long, high and vexing.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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King-Hammond suggested yet another factor: his focus on people, and not formalist ideas, was unfashionable in the eyes of art history’s shapers.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There have been tasteless jokes and revelations, and lengthy impositions on the patience of even the most bereaved.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
24 Mar. 2025
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The resulting odorless and tasteless solution is packed into LND101 capsules, The pancreatic cancer patients will take the pills on a specific dosage calendar.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
27 Feb. 2025
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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Memorably dowdy fashion notwithstanding, the juicy role — part Nurse Ratched, part Jack Torrance — launched Bates into the Hollywood ether following years of false starts.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Jane and Kit stand on either side, looking dowdy in black dresses and veils (not really an Irish thing).—
Cullen Murphy,
airmail.news,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Ticky-tacky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticky-tacky. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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