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Tacky   /tˈæki/   Listen
adjective
Tacky  adj.  Sticky; somewhat adhesive;; said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. (U. S.)


Tacky  adj.  
1.
Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt. (Local, U. S.)
2.
In poor taste; appearing cheap; gaudy; unstylish. Broadly used to describe objects whose style is disapproved of by the speaker.
3.
Tactless; in poor taste; used to describe behavior.


noun
Tacky  n.  (Written also tackey)  An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. (Southern U. S.)





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"Tacky" Quotes from Famous Books



... dinner, in our tails, some English ladyship through a lorgnette or a spyglass of some kind gave us the once-over with the rough blade of her social disapproval and we felt like prize boobs suddenly kidnapped from a tacky party and dropped into a grand ball. But we couldn't help it. How should we have known, without our wives to pack our trunks for us in New York, that tails had atrophied in European society and that uniforms and dinner coats had taken ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White


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