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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticky-tacky
Adjective
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The first film had charm and heart, while Daddy’s Home 2 is mostly a tacky, tasteless affair.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025 -
This production replaces the Orientalist extravaganza that Sonya Frisell directed in 1988 and that came to define the grand-opera experience — dazzling, uplifting, gloriously tacky — for two generations.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Finally, there's Rick (Walton Goggins) and his conspicuously young girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), a somewhat trashy pair who look completely out of place among the posh and refined.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Tabloid Fiction The Pregnant Fugitive Heather O'Neill In which an author writes a short story inspired by the trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre news items of the moment.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This fresh-and-crunch platter of veggies and shrimp with a spicy dip is the perfect foil for all of our other cheesy favorites.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
23 Feb. 2025
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Some old movies begin as a cheesy map gone up in flames to quick-start real people talking, in trouble, if-in-fact.—
Marianne Boruch,
The New York Review of Books,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Their legacy includes the extreme outfits of the flamboyant criminals and hairdressers in Female Trouble (1974) and the grotesque Mortvillians in Desperate Living (1977) Smith to Polyester (1982) and Hairspray (1988) to more mainstream films such as Cry-Baby (1990) and Serial Mom (1994).—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2025
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Werfel concocted a more tortuous explanation for his wife’s grotesque behavior.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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It's never really been unfashionable to wear a bow in your hair; it's just been extra-super-trendy for the last year or two.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
13 Feb. 2025
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There were also dozens more Baroque paintings, many dating to the seventeenth century and acquired in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, when such works were unfashionable.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2024
Adjective
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The Office’s more tasteless moments remain hysterically funny thanks to the show’s empathy: this was a series that punched up, not down.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
31 Jan. 2025
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Flailing arms, bent legs, tasteless costumes and choppy music edits received his unapologetic ire.—
Deborah Wilker,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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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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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To stay warm without looking dowdy, add a fuzzy shrug or jacket on top and a pair of lace or plumetis tights below.—
Talia Abbas,
Glamour,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Ticky-tacky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticky-tacky. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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