Example sentences for: tacky

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

  • 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.

  • What the new, monstrously budgeted Godzilla brings home is that size doesn't matter--that tacky crudeness harnessed to a real vision can have more brute power than all the state-of-the-art computer wizardry that Hollywood's money can buy.

  • Among the subjects he touches on in his poem are street crime, unemployment, the degradation of the welfare system, tacky urban renewal projects, overcrowding, high rents and unscrupulous landlords, noise, vehicular traffic, congestion, even problems of immigration and integration.

  • In a more honest world, it wouldn't be tacky for titans of industry to say they're leaving to pursue a fully deployed golden parachute as they bail out.

  • 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.


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