How to Use tackiness in a Sentence

tackiness

noun

• Bring on the feathers, the rhinestones, the prints, and the tackiness.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 May 2019
• Tamales will still be soft to the touch, and with a slight tackiness.
  — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
• Tamales will still be soft to the touch, with a slight tackiness.
  — Minerva Orduño Rincón, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
• Just turning the page of a book or just to get a little tackiness on the fingers.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• When the sealing spray dries, I powder using a brush to take away the tackiness.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 14 Apr. 2022
• The prototypes used in Triple-A have a substance applied to them to create a bit of tackiness.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2021
• There can be an inescapable sense of classism at play when some folks talk about tackiness.
  — Marie Southard Ospina, refinery29.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• The almost-tackiness of the couch is mitigated by the molding on the doors behind her.
  — Stella Bugbee, The Cut, 22 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Del Rey shined In front of a neon sign that oozed the romanticized tackiness of Hollywood.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2017
• The tackiness added a helpful grip, lending itself to neater, longer-lasting braids.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 10 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And tackiness can take many forms, from ostentatious displays of wealth to proud displays of cheapness.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• All in all the, Saucy Glosses felt moisturizing and comfortable on the lips without any tackiness or stickiness.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 29 July 2022
• What one umpire’s view of stickiness is another’s view of tackiness.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Our experts were surprised by how quickly the milky formula absorbed, leaving dewy, plumped skin without tackiness.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 15 Nov. 2022
• The issue is, why can’t Lina indulge in equal opportunity tackiness?
  — Tia Williams, Glamour, 24 Apr. 2017
• 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
• Under Trumpism, politics have an aesthetic, and that aesthetic is tacky, and the tackiness is disappointing.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024