ticky-tacky

adjective

variants also ticky-tack
Definition of ticky-tackynext
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
  1. tacky
  2. trashy
  3. cheesy
  4. grotesque
  5. unfashionable
  6. tasteless
  7. inelegant
  8. dowdy
Adjective
  • This is especially true of corn brooms, which can be slightly tacky, causing shards to stick to the rushes.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Its easy slip-on design is paired with a tacky Vibram outsole offering traction that reminded us of Topo’s award-winning trail shoes.
    Cory Smith, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of tacky
Adjective
  • Loading your audio article From a fabled punk band to a trashy art exhibit, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The Piano Lesson Mati Diop’s probing doc about African cultural heritage and Benin artifacts being recovered to their continental place outclasses the Denzel Washington clan’s trashy version of August Wilson’s reparation ghost story.
    Armond White, National Review, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of trashy
Adjective
  • But don’t use cheesy pick-up lines or play hard to get.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The result is an easy, cheesy casserole that all comes together in a Dutch oven.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of cheesy
Adjective
  • Newsom has ordered an investigation, but this looks like grotesque mismanagement.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Where the r-slur is concerned, one recalls Trump’s grotesque imitation in 2015 of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital joint condition.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of grotesque
Adjective
  • Frisco hooded peacoat: $15.19 Dog coats don’t need to be unfashionable.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Iceland’s entry is radical in its unfashionable straightforwardness.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of unfashionable
Adjective
  • Particularly, with the juxtaposition of the tragedy of the fires makes the kind of vain posturing look more tasteless.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But more is at play in The Substance, which is also tasteless, silly, and — even at its grossest — easy to digest.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of tasteless
Adjective
  • 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
  • The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of inelegant
Adjective
  • She’s come a long way from Marianne’s dowdy school uniform.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • World-renowned for its cashmere, buttery leather, and tailored wool, Italian winter fashion leaves no room for dowdy sweatpants and sweatshirts.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of dowdy
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