Example sentences for: tacky

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

  • Demanding a bridge as your price would be tacky, especially in exchange for killing off a big-ticket fiscal-austerity measure.

  • 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.

  • Chatterbox (high-school class of '76, college class of '80) sort of liked the fern bar, and took no notice of the Camaro's restyling, but otherwise won't quibble: Good riddance to the 1970s, tacky decade of my youth!

  • 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 .)

  • In Pecker , John Waters seems to wonder aloud if you can ever go home again, especially when your success, like his own, has transformed that home from something authentically tacky into something ironically chic.


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