ticky-tacky

adjective

variants also ticky-tack
Definition of ticky-tackynext
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticky-tacky
  1. tacky
  2. trashy
  3. cheesy
  4. grotesque
  5. unfashionable
  6. tasteless
  7. inelegant
  8. dowdy
Adjective
  • This is especially true of corn brooms, which can be slightly tacky, causing shards to stick to the rushes.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Its easy slip-on design is paired with a tacky Vibram outsole offering traction that reminded us of Topo’s award-winning trail shoes.
    Cory Smith, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of tacky
Adjective
  • This is our fourth installment of Tabloid Fiction, in which an author chooses from the trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre stories of the moment and writes a short story inspired by same.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Workers across the globe are in constant pursuit of work-life balance, looking to grab some me time to maintain a social life or simply watch the latest trashy reality-TV show.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of trashy
Adjective
  • But don’t use cheesy pick-up lines or play hard to get.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The result is an easy, cheesy casserole that all comes together in a Dutch oven.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of cheesy
Adjective
  • Newsom has ordered an investigation, but this looks like grotesque mismanagement.
    The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Where the r-slur is concerned, one recalls Trump’s grotesque imitation in 2015 of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital joint condition.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of grotesque
Adjective
  • Marino is an eclectic collector, often choosing unfashionable objects like cookie jars, or Renaissance and Baroque bronzes.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • In a squad enriched with European pedigree, Cash is one of the more unfashionable players, less flashy, more functional.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of unfashionable
Adjective
  • Particularly, with the juxtaposition of the tragedy of the fires makes the kind of vain posturing look more tasteless.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But more is at play in The Substance, which is also tasteless, silly, and — even at its grossest — easy to digest.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of tasteless
Adjective
  • For such an inelegant behavior to be in chatbots as widespread and popular as GPT is a blunt reminder of two larger, seemingly contrary phenomena.
    Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The result has been a competition that has felt, at times, unwieldy and inelegant and exhausting.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of inelegant
Adjective
  • She’s come a long way from Marianne’s dowdy school uniform.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024
  • World-renowned for its cashmere, buttery leather, and tailored wool, Italian winter fashion leaves no room for dowdy sweatpants and sweatshirts.
    Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of dowdy
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