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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Adjective
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Movie marketers have long used Cannes as an opportunity to associate their projects with the glamour of the annual event — even if their stunts are loud and elaborate (occasionally bordering on tacky).—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
15 May 2025 -
Long been derided as tacky, commercial non-art, sitcoms with background laughter over the years have been condemned as a dystopian form of joke mind control.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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Quinn drawing inspiration from Matt’s trashy movie recommendations has been a fun recurring gag.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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Director Sean Byrne doesn’t lean hard enough into the trashy pleasures for maximum fun, unlike some of the more preposterous recent shark movies.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
Adjective
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In the r/Costco subreddit, most people aren’t impressed by the cheesy concoction.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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Serve the dish over rice or pasta to soak up the cheesy sauce.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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However sincere and dedicated Bianca Cline’s efforts are, there’s something grotesque about hiring a second cinematographer to attempt to reproduce Hutchins’s style, and something perverse about digitally pasting an actor’s face on another’s in order to maintain continuity.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 May 2025
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It’s stylized, grotesque — and apparently, mother-repellent.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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The movie takes its title for the unfashionable floater of a nearly unhittable pitch, long, high and vexing.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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King-Hammond suggested yet another factor: his focus on people, and not formalist ideas, was unfashionable in the eyes of art history’s shapers.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But tasteless fruit, likely results from a lack of nitrogen and phosphorous in the soil.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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The tree secretes gum arabic—a tasteless, nontoxic, pale-white or orange-brown sap that may be harvested at the end of the rainy season in sub-Saharan Africa.—
Erik Zou,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And, here’s the kicker, and the most annoying part: They are served in cardboard boxes, which makes eating them at a table inelegant at best.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
9 May 2025
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Director Benedict Andrews has adapted the text with a heavy, though not inelegant, push toward contemporary British rhythms and mores, and the ensemble gets the street-clothes-with-a-nod-to-character treatment.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Machi plays a dowdy tax inspector closing in on a Shakira-style Latina singer for tax fraud.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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These designs deliver on arch support without feeling dowdy.—
Malia Griggs,
Glamour,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Ticky-tacky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticky-tacky. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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