adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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tacky souvenirs
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cheap, tacky furniture in bright colors
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I think it's kind of tacky to give her a present that someone else gave you.
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The paint's still a little tacky .
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The room was decorated to look like a cartoon Swiss village, but managed to be cheerfully tacky .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Every notice is up to date, attractive, perfectly aligned on the purpose-built tacky surface.
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Knead for 10 to 12 minutes till dough is soft and elastic, tacky but not sticky.
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Some of the things we did were inappropriate, were tacky , were wrong.
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The dough should be elastic, soft, tacky , but not sticky and the seeds should be evenly distributed.
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The general quality of the whole machine is let down by the tacky keyboard.
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When tacky , start fixing the shells in place.
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While Almond aims for tacky , spunky cabaret rock, he's about as subversive as Come Dancing.
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Yes, it was tacky , but some of those pictures were folk art.