单词 | tacky |
释义 | tacky (once / 18382 pages) 1adj 2adj Things that are tacky are cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, tawdry, or trashy. Tacky clothes are a fashion nightmare, and tacky comments are embarrassing for everyone involved. If you wore a bright orange suit to school, with a neon green hat, you'd be dressing in a tacky way. Tacky clothes are usually inexpensive yet flashy and showy — obnoxious. When people make tasteless, trashy comments, it's also considered tacky. But if you're in art class and someone says that your paper-mâché project is tacky, don't get mad — they probably just mean that it's not dry yet and still sticky to the touch. WORD FAMILYtacky: tackier, tackiest, tackily, tackiness USAGE EXAMPLESTongues wagged - wasn't the whole thing a little too tacky, a little too American? BBC(Dec 30, 2016) What would a holiday weekend be without a chance to don your tackiest apparel? Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) Let your husband do the dishes and you two settle down to some tacky TV, or scroll through Instagram together. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) 1 adj tastelessly showy 2Syn brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste adj (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch tacky varnish Syn wet covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
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