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Example sentences for: tacky

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Thomas Sancton, Paris bureau chief of Time magazine, told the Daily Telegraph , "What is tacky is the amplification given to this book on Fleet Street, particularly by the tabloids."
Local arts and crafts vary from tacky figurines to pleasant drawings of street scenes and postmodernist portraits.
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.
To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky postscript: a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.
Over the years, advertisers have tried all kinds of tactics to attract customers, and more recently those tactics have seemed to cover the full spectrum of the possible, including the utterly oblique (Infiniti's first campaign), the willfully tacky (Mentos), the memorable-for-memorability's-sake (Outpost.com's flying gerbils and ravenous wolves), and the self-loathing (Sega's Japanese ads for Dreamcast, which I wrote about here last week).