Example sentences for: tacky

How can you use “tacky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He has always borrowed from the genre, but his scary motifs were leavened with homey ones--with elements inspired by cartoons, Dr. Seuss, and tacky Japanese giant-monster flicks.

  • Some pundits called her presence tacky (she was a guest of Insight magazine), and some guests booed her.

  • Between La Brea and Western Avenue, the boulevard exhibits the fine, tacky splendor of the 1920s and 30s, with its low, flat stucco buildings, a droopy palm tree or two, and even some vintage Packards and Buicks parked out on the street.

  • 7) She will be a victim of synergy, reduced to "scrounging around for tony material to turn into tacky movies" (Maureen Dowd, the New York Times ). (For more on Tina, see David Plotz's "Assessment" of her in Slate .)

  • On a tight budget, it required real effort to oppose the multicolored, tacky assumptions of ordinary life in those days.


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